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EPIGRAM AND EPITAPH. 


An epigram is like a bee—a thing 
Of little size, with honey and a sting. 
—WIGGLESWORTH, /rom Martial. 


Only the actions of the just 
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. 
—JAMES SHIRLEY, 


yf)! seems to me there are two ways of defining the 
iA @) word epigram. The idea at first suggested is that 
eww} of a striking thought set forth in sharp, terse, 
usually antithetical language, which carries conviction. The 
second idea is that expressed in the dictionary definition— 
‘*‘a pointed couplet or stanza, a short poem ending in a turn 
of wit.’”? This refers toa form of epigram that came to be 
the exact opposite of the other,—a labored, punning rhyme, 
generally ill-natured. Many English writers, from Ben 
Jonson to Praed, have affected this style of writing ; but we 
can say of their epigrams, as Campbell said of the works of 
Gay : ‘‘ They are on our shelves, but not in our pockets ; in 
our remembrance, but not in our memories.’”’ The fact that 
they are in rhyme excludes selection from them for this 
volume. The ancient Greeks and Romans, and the French 
writers of fifty years ago, are masters of the first-mentioned 
form of epigram ; although some of the most notable speci- 
mens are found much nearer home. Holmes’ remark in the 
“‘Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” ‘‘ I never wrote a good 
line in my life, but the moment after it was written it seemed 
a hundred years old,’”’ applies peculiarly to epigrams. They 
have a flavor of age, they impress you as having been growths 
and not creations, they are the crystallizations of old thought, 
and so have been made by accretion. The old-fashioned 
essay gave much more opportunity for their production than 
the modern novel. 

The words of celebrated men, either at death or in memor- 
able crises, seem appropriate in this collection, as well as 
epitaphs, the best of which are a form of epigram, I have 
given a few rhymed epitaphs, since they are so fine or so 
famous that to leave them out merely because the general 
plan included only prose, seemed unnecessary. 


Epigram and Epitaph. 


Spllables gobern the world. 


JOHN SELDEN. 


& must die in harness, like w hero or a horse. 
HOOD. 


Brabe men ure brabe from the berp first. 
CORNEILLE. 


Che language of truth is simple. 
EURIPIDES, 
Go be prepured for far is one of the most 


effectual means of preserbing peace. 
GEORGE WASHINGTON, 


Drise prejudices out. by the door, they fill 
re-enter by the window. 


FREDERICK THE GREAT, 
Che God foho gube us life gube us liberty at 
the same time. THOMAS JEFFERSON. 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


“Gt for guin one more such bictorp ober the 
Romans, fe ure lost,” 


Said Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, after two victories 
which cost him many friends and generals, 


“ dile habe fallen im oith the enemp,” said an 
othcer. “Rather the enemy bus fallen in With 
us,” answered Pelopidas, 


Che silence of the people is the lesson of kings. 


LOANEN, BISHOP OF SENEZ. 


Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. 


BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 


Inscription on the cannon near which the ashes of Prest- 
dent Fohn Bradshaw were lodged, on the top of a 
high hill near Martha Bay, in Famaica. 


Alo floterp rod lends to glorp. 


LA FONTAINE. 


Au prostrating me, thep babe onlp throton 
Doton the tree of liberty in San Domingos. dt 
foill pet repel them with its roots, hich are deep 


und numerous, TOUSSAINT L’'OUVERTURE. 


Che best form of gobernment is that in bobich 
the people obey the rulers, und the rulers obep 
the latus, SOCRATES. 


Epigram and Epitaph 


Chere is wu higher law than the Constitution. 


WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 


dt is u tempest in w glass of fouter. 
PAUL, GRAND DUKE OF RUSSIA. 


Concerning an insurrection in Geneva. 


4 think, therefore J am. DESCARTES. 


qrogress is lame. SAINTE-BEUVE. 


Drespotism is the bery essence of mp gobern- 


ment, und if suits the genius of mp land, 
EMPEROR NICHOLAS OF RUSSIA. 


Sf thou bust neber beew w fool, be sure thon 
foilt neber be w fise man. THACKERAY, 


dt is much eusier to get a nebo buckler than a 


nefo Itfe. ARCHILOCHUS. 


Pencenbly if fe can, forcibly if foe must. 


JOSIAH QUINCY. 


All is lost, madam, sabe honor. 
FRANCIS I. 
In a letter to his mother after the battle of Pavia. 


doe to the bangquished | LIVY. 


ddeas outlibe men. GARFIELD, 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


“AHebolution is the name gibew to successful 
treason und rebellion,” 


Is an old classic saying, from which Sir Thomas Bar- 
rington formed his fanious epigram : 


Creason does neber prosper; hut ’s the reason ? 
hp, When it prospers, wone dare cull it treason. 


Ruoboledge is potver. BACON, 


He smells not foell hose smell is all perfume. 
MARTIAL, 


Our Federal Anion: Ft must be preserbed. 


ANDREW JACKSON, 
Che remedy is Morse thaw the disewse. 
BACON, 


© foeurisome condition of humanity | 
LORD BROOKE. 


Eheresocber, Mbhensoeber, or holusorber, fue 
shall be culled to make our exit, foe foill die 


freemen, JOSIAH QUINCY, JR. 


They only employ Words for the purpose of 
concenling their thoughts. VOLTAIRE, 


Alothing is easier thuw to aseribe the blame of 
wn act to the dead. JULIUS CAESAR. 


Epigram and Epitaph. 


Virtue hus many preachers, but feb martyrs. 
HELVETIUS. 


Self-lobe is the greatest of flatterers. 


LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 


Ghery Gnglishman is un island. 
NOVALIS. 


Style is the dress of thought. 


CHESTERFIELD. 


A public office is a guest fhich receibes the 
best usage from them fobo neber inbited i. 
THOMAS FULLER. 
Che tree of liberty onlp grows fhen toxtered 
by the blood of tyrants. 


BERTRAND BARERE, 
Ae foho weber lenbes bis country is full of 
prejudices. GOLDONI., 


His fit, being snuffed by fount, burned clenr, 


THOMAS KILLEGREW. 


Our later is neber equal to our case. 
ANON. 


Calking is one of the fine arts. 
HOLMES. 


& twill die in the last ditch. 


WILLIAM OF ORANGE, 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


® Hiberty! Xiberty! bot manp crimes are 


committed in thy name ! 
MADAME ROLAND, 


dt is sheet and glorious to Die for one’s 
country. HORACE. 


Che heart of a statesman should be in bis 


bend. NAPOLEON I. 


GDhe first sigh of lobe is the Inst of foisdom. 


ANTOINE BRET. 


Chey make w desert, und cull it peace. 
TACTITUS. 


GHbere law ends, tyranny begins. 


WILLIAM PITT. 


Fortune fabors the brabe. TERENCE. 


Of the hing’s creation you may be; but be 
fho makes a count neber made x man. 
THOMAS SOUTHERNE. 
Many saints habe been canonized Moho ought 


to habe been cannonaded. 
CALEB C. COLTON. 


Yt is not the Mweathercoch that changes, it is 


the find. DESMOULINS. 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 


GHe ulays weaken whateber foe exaggerate. 


JEAN FRANCOISE DE LA HARPE., 


Che best fire does na flare up the soonest. 
GEORGE ELIOT, 


Che enbions fill die, but enbp neber, 
MOLIERE, 


Crouble brings trouble to trouble. 
SOPHOCLES. 


Mf J held eberp truth in mp hand, J fould 


befoare of opening it to men, 
FONTENELLE,. 


Musing near the walls of the Bastile. 


Ge read on the forehead of those fho are 
surrounded Sy a foolish luxury, that Sortune 
sells fobat she is thought to gibe. 


LA FONTAINE, 


There is no Damocles like unto self-opinion. 
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, 


Che fu to be safe is neber to feel secure. 


BURKE, 

Plough deep fohile sluggurds sleep. 
FRANKLIN. 
Honor eberp truth by use. EMERSON. 


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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Often the cock-loft is empty in those fhom 
Mature hath built many stories high. 
RICHARD FULLER. 
at is as bard to find a man Without guilt us x 
fish Without a backbone. ARCHYTOS, 


Millions for defence, but not ome cent for 


tribute. CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY. 


Chese are the times that try men’s souls, 
THOMAS PAINE, 


GHestminster Abbep or bictorp ! 
HORATIO NELSON. 
Ox boarding the ‘** San Nicolas.” 


Because thy library is full of books which 
thou bust bought, dost thou think thyself x man 
of letters ? AUSONIUS. 


Che pedunt cares more to teach us Mobat be 
knows than fbat fe do not kro. 


ANON, 
ings fill be tyrants from policy, fohen sub- 
jects ure rebels from principle. 
EDMUND BURKE, 
GHbhen one runs after Mit, be is sure to catch 


WOWSE INE, MONTESQUIEU. 
To 


Epigram and Epitaph. 


Hypocrisy is the homage bice puns to birtue. 


LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 


Gentility is nothing but ancient riches. 
LORD BURLEIGH. 


Patience is the art of hoping. 


VAUVENARGUES, 


Cruth is not impatient. BOILEAU. 


Hees ure sometimes drofoned in the honey 
fobich they collect, so some foriters are lost in 
their collected learning. HAWTHORNE. 


He that hath lobe iw bis breast bath spurs 
in bis side. ANON, 


Crifles muke perfection, but perfection is no 


trifle. MICHAEL ANGELO, 


Gime onlp respects that in Which he bus w part. 


LAMARTINE. 


Gherp one is the sow of his of forks. 


CERVANTES. 


He foo suffices for himself is rich. 


EPICTETUS. 


GHomen ure un uristocrucy, MICHELET. 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Che success of the greater part of things de- 


pends upon knowing hots long it takes to succeed, 
MONTESQUIEU. 


Che greut ure onlp great becanse fe are on 
sur knees; let us rise up. PRUD’HOMME, 


Che man thut procrastinates struggles eber 
ith ruin. HESIOD, 


Deen bengeance is the daughter of deep silence. 


ALFIERI. 


Che deepest ribers hube the least sound. 
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS. 


He hud a face like x benediction, 
CERVANTES. 


GAho best can suffer can do, MILTON, 


Good-breeding neber forgets thut “ umour- 
propre’ is unibersal. HOLMES. 


St is great cleberness to knot boty to concenl 


our cleber TWeSS, LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 


Curn the perspective-glass, and a giant appears 


a pigmy. THACKERAY. 


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Epigrdm and Epitaph. 


Gberp man is the architect of his ofon fortune. - 
SALLUST. 


Che man who masters himself is free. 
EPICTETUS. 


Books are spectacles to read nature. 
DRYDEN, 


Custom is the universal ruler. PINDAR, 


How dificult it is to sube the bark of reputa- 
tion from the rocks of ignorance ! 


PETRARCH, 
Auobledge und timber should wt be much 
used till they ure seasoned. HOLMES, 


A man fobho is not content With wu little is 
content ith nothing. EPICURUS. 


dt is nothing to die; it is frightful not to libe. 


VICTOR HUGO, 


GHe acquire the strength toe babe obercome. 


EMERSON. 
Aropbecy is no fatalism, AUGUSTINE. 
@ld friends ure best. JOHN SELDEN. 


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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Quillery is x mode of speaking im fabor of 


one’s fit aguinst one’s good nature. 
MONTESQUIEU, 


Reading maketh a full man, speaking a readp 
man, foriting an exact man, BACON. 


Gbery one’s reason is bis pribute way of 
Deceibing himself. ANON. 
il 


Che best of prophets of the future is the pust. 


BYRON, 
“SA fool could not be silent,” 


Satd Demaratus, when asked if he was silent through 
Jolly. 


“dt is as sharp as slander,” 
Satd Thearidas, of the sword he had just whetted, 


Hobs bomen lobe lobe ! HOLMES. 


Riches, the greatest source of human trouble. 
SENECA, 


He dwells nowhere Who dwells eberviobere. 


MARTIAL, 


Gratitude is the memorp of the heart. 
MASSIEU. 


Ghat thou lobest, thon libest. FICHTE. 


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Epigram and Epitaph. 


Coo much is seldom enough. Pumping after 


pour bucket is full prebents its keeping so. 
AUGUSTUS HARE, 


After all, it is the imponderables that mobe 
the foorld,—heut, electricity, lobe.  Hormes. 


A man is seldom more manly than foben be is 
fohut you call unmanned. THACKERAY, 


Che too noblest things ure shoeetness und light. 


JONATHAN SWIFT, 
Atheism is the suicide of the soul. 


ANON, 


Che oibine hunger of genius. 7 
GARFIELD. 


Manners maketh man. 
WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM, 


av essentials unity, in things doubtful liberty, 
in ull things charity. MELANCHTHON, 


AMindnesses misplaced ure nothing but w curse 
and disserbice. ENNIUS, 


Patred is like fire; it mukes eben light rubbish 


deadly. GEORGE ELIOT. 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Caste is the soul’s literary conscience. 
JOSEPH JOUBERT. 


Man proposes, but God disposes. 
THOMAS A KEMPIS. 


Duty is the soul’s fireside. 


JOSEPH COOK, 


Chat thou mapest be lobed, lobe. 


MARTIAL. 


Dost thon lobe life, then do not squander 


time, for that is the stuff life is made of, 
FRANKLIN. 


Hor to cust aay av birtuons friend, J call us 
bad us to cast ufoap one’s oto life. 


SOPHOCLES. 
Pou hube silber bessels, but exrthentoure rea- 
sons, principles, appetites. EPICTETUS. 


Men exist for the sake of one another. 
Geach them, or bear with them. 


MARCUS AURELIUS, 
Che dibine image in man map be burned, but 
it cannot be burned ont. ST. BERNARD. 


Gisdom is althemp. Glse it could not be 


fisdom, AUGUSTUS HARE, 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 


Hature is ua tag-merchunt, fho forks up 


eberp shred and ort and end into nebo creutions. 
EMERSON, 


“ Disquise thyself us thon tilt, still, Slabery,” 
said a, “still thou urt u bitter draught.” 


STERNE. 
GHbut is u feed? A plant whose birtues 
habe not pet been discobered. EMERSON, 


Passion often makes x fool of the ublest man, 


and an able man of the most foolish. 
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 


Au brief, ull things are urtificial ; for ature 


is the urt of Good. SIR THOMAS BROWNE, 


Alature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice 


is foewh. JULIUS HARE. 


4 am neber less at leisure than foben at 


leisure, nor less alone than oben J am alone. 
SCIPIO AFRICANUS. 


Christ alone, like bis emblem, the light, passed 
through wll things undefiled. 


BISHOP HORNE, 


Gbery character is the joint product of nature 


nnd nurture. GARFIELD, 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Put me in chains? Ho, no! pou may put 
my leg in chains, but not eben Zeus himself can 
muster mp fill. EPICTETUS. 

Aw ucre in Middlesex is horth w principality 
in Qtopia. MACAULAY. 

GHhosoe’er is not more than boise enough is 


foise. MARTIAL. 


Che uncients orended death ; the Christian can 
only fear dying. AUGUSTUS HARE. 


Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an 
aged bosom. WILLIAM PITT. 


Cragedp openeth the greatest founds, and 
showeth forth the ulcers that ure cobered ith 


tissue, SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 


Chose oho fount friends to fhom to open their 
griefs, ure cannibals of their of hearts. 
BACON. 
Chep ure neber ulone that ure accompanied 


ith noble thoughts. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 


4 can promise to be sincere, to be impartial g 


cannot, GOETHE. 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 


Sin hus many tools, but w lie is the bundle 
that fits them all. HOLMES. 


Chat chastity of honor fohich felt w stain like 
x found. BURKE. 


Now blessings light ow him thut first inbented 


sleep. CERVANTES. 


How many ure unboorthy of the light! and 
pet the dap dufons, SENECA. 


Che judge is condemned whew the guilty is 


nequitted. PUBLIUS SYRUS, 


Ghew tohen the bird foulks, toe see thut it hus 


foings. ANTOINE-MARIN LEMIERRE. 


Gminence is to merit fhut fine attire is to 2 


handsome person. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 


Whew Greeks joined Greeks, then foas the 


tug of far. NATHANIEL LEE, 


Fortune gibes too much to many, enough to 


mone, MARTIAL. 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


alo longer talk wbout the kind of man that w 
good man ought to be, but be such. 


MARCUS AURELIUS. 
Our most genuine birtues are those Mbich fhe 
suspect the least. ANON. 


dio man fous eber great boithont dibine inspi- 


tation. CICERO. 


All the foit im the World is nseless to him 


fho bus none. LA BRUYERE. 


Amputience dries the bloot sooner than age 


or sorrof. SIR THOMAS BROWNE, 


A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by 


others. MARCUS AURELIUS. 


Be bas wv deed half done who bas made a 
beginning. HORACE, 


Do not praise the fairness of the day till 
ebening. SOLON. 


Do and bube done. The former is far the 


ester. AUGUSTUS HARE, 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 


Go libe is offer wu orenter proof of wu firm 
soul thaw to die. ALFIERI. 


Ghat shadows fe are, and whut shudotes 


fe pursue | BURKE, 


Che Wormwood of conscience embitters eben 
sorroby. RICHTER. 


GAbat the urts ure to the Morld of matter, 


literature is to the foorld of mind. 
GARFIELD. 


Het him foho hath conferred u fabor bold 


his tongue. SENECA, 


at is more thaw w crime, it is a political 


blunder. JOSEPH FOUCHE. 


4 babe knoton that 


/ ama man, and that to 
me there is no more share in to-morrof’s dap 


than to yon, SOPHOCLES, 


A friend may fell be rechoned the masterpiece 


of wuture. EMERSON, 


Passions are defects or birtues in the highest 


potner, GOETHE, 
PAA, 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


dt is not be ho forms dibine images in gold 
und marble that makes them gods, but he tho 
kneels before them. MARTIAL. 


He that studieth rebenge heepeth bis of 
founds green. BACON, 


alo fickedness proceeds on any grounds of 
TeHSON.  LIVY, 


Gpigram said to habe been made by Queen 
Glizabeth, ther ushed fhat she thought our 
Sabiour meant fohen be said, “ Chis is mp 
body.” dt is ulso attributed to Dr. Donne: 

Christ Mas the word that spake it ; 
He took the bread and brake it ; 
And fohat that ford d1d9 make it, 
Chat J beliebe, and take it. 


df any man bus done forong, the harm is bis 
oon. But perbaps be bas not done brong. 


MARCUS AURELIUS. 
Vou make but a poor trap to catch luck, if 
you go und bait it for’ Mirhedness. 


GEORGE ELIOT. 
The dispute ubout religion and the practice of 
it seldom go together. YOUNG. 


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Epigram and Epitaph. 


af then dribe the bishops from their palaces, 
they fill take refuge in the hobels of the poor 
fohom they bube supported. af then take from 
them their cross of gold, thep fill assume w cross 
of feood; it fas w cross of Mood Which subed the 


forld, BISHOP MONTLOSIER. 


Grim denth, PHILIP MASSINGER. 


Anscription on the refectory of x Franciscan 
conbent ut Xyons, France : 
Hefoure—Ol wishing all vow see ; 
Of beliebing all vow hear ; 
Of saving ull pou knob ; 
Of doing all pou can. 


Che state—it is J. LOUIS XIV. 


The World fas giben us for our ofvw edifien- 
tion, not for the purpose of raising sumptuous 
buildings ; Wife, for the discharge of moral and 
religions duties, not for plensurable modnlgence ; 
Weulth, to be liberally bestotoed, not abarictonsly 
hourded ; Learning, to produce good actions, not 
empty disputes, 


Inscription over an Arabic Mosque, copied by Sir Wil- 


diam Fones. 


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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


He tho does chil that good may come, paps a 
toll to the debil to Iet him into heaben. 


AUGUSTUS HARE. 


God looks to pure und not to full bands, 


PUBLIUS SYRUS. 


Steep and craggy is the pathway of the gods. 


PORPHYRY. 


Af God spare mp life, ere many pears J will 
cause uw bon that dribes the plough to knob more 
of the Scriptures than pow do. TYNDALE. 


Grimes sometimes shock us too much; hices 
wmost ulfoaps too littl. = aucusrus HARE. 


A fault seems smaller fobich it takes little 


time to conrmit, ANON. 


Che intellect of the Oise is like glass: it ud- 
mits the light of heaben, und reflects it. 


AUGUSTUS HARE. 


Che medicine of the mind. 


Inscription on a Library at Alexandria, Founded 
300 B.C. 


Repentance is wv goddess und preserber of those 
fobo babe erred. JULIAN, 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 


GHith malice toward none, with charity for all, 
with firmness in the right us God gibes us to see 
the right, let us finish the fork foe are in, to bind 
up the watiow’s toounds, to care for him bobo 
shall habe borne the battle, und for bis widens 
and bis orphans, to do all Mhich may achiebe and 
cherish n just und lasting peace among ourselbes 
wd fith all nations, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

4 knots that be can toil terribly. CECIL, 
In regard to Sir Walter Raleigh. 

Denth borders upon our birth, und our cradle 


stands in the grabe. BISHOP HALL. 


As for myself, ¥ consider mp life as but a 
moment ; und to fll that moment {ith duty, is 


my nll. FRANCIS MARION, 


Che name of Putnam is not forgotten, nor 
fill it be but toith that stroke of time tobich shall 
obliterate fromy my mind the remembrance of all 
those toils and fatigues through which fe babe 
struggled for the preserbution and establishment 
of the rights, liberties, and independence of our 


country. GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
To Israel Putnam. 


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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


J fous the last man in mp kingdom to consent 
to pour independence; und J shall be the last to 
do unp thing to infringe it. GEORGE IIL, 


To Mr. Adams, American Minister. 


Co the memorp of the man, first in four, first 


in peace, and first in the benrts of bis countrymen. 
HENRY LEE, 
On Washington. 


He fous one of the feto greut rulers whose 
fisdom increased With bis potoer, and fohose 
spirit greby gentler und tenderer as bis triumphs 
foere multiplied. GARFIELD, 


On Abraham Lincoln. 


Che Wound is for pou, the sorrow is for me. 


CHARLES Ix., 
To Coligny, on the night of St. Bartholomew. 


4 neber could beliebe that Drebidence had sent 
a feo mew into the world, ready booted und 
spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and 


bridled to be ridden, RICHARD RUMBOLD, 
Upon the scaffold, 


Co lobe ber fous w liberal education, 
SIR RICHARD STEELE, 
Of Lady Elizabeth Hastings. 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 


Chut execruble sum of all billainies, commonly 
culled x Slabe Crade. JOHN WESLEY. 


Shukespeare fous not for un age, but for all 


time. BEN JONSON, 


Heonidus, being told that the number of Per- — 
sian arrows ould bide the sun, anshoered: 
“Then foe shall fight in the shade.” 


Come quickly, O Death! for fear that ut last 
4 should forget myself. 


MARCUS AURELIUS. 
Remember thy end. 
Engraved on the bedstead of Charles I., at Cowes. 
Hincolw’s heurt fous us greut as the Morld, but 
there fous no room in it to bold the memory of a 


frog. EMERSON, 


Gentlemen, for babe a muster; this poung 
man does eberp thing, is uble for eberp thing, and 
fills eberp thing. SIEVES, 

Of Bonaparte. 

GHe ure met by the foill of the nation; te 


shall retire only by compulsion. 
MIRABEAU, 
In reply toa message from Louis XVI, 


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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


But pour irust in God; but mind to heep 


pour pofoder drp. OLIVER CROMWELL. 
Aw the midst of life foe ure in deuth. 
NOTKER, 


A monk of St. Gall. 

“@ome und take them,” said Leonidas, in 

reply to Xerxes’ demand that he surrender his 
arms, 


That is fine, und ¥ Mould habe praised you 


more if pow bud praised me less. 
LOUIS XIV., 


To Botleau. 


4 um the first of mp line. 
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 


9, ulso, wm a painter ! CORREGGIO, 
As he gazed ona picture by Raphael. 


Forgibe others many things, yourself nothing. 
PUBLIUS SYRUS. 
4 fos born uv American; J libe av Ameri- 


car; J shall die av American, 
DANIEL WEBSTER. 


4 would rather posterity should inquire hp 
no statues Sere erected to mr memory, than Obp 


then fere, CATO. 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 


Underneath this stone doth lte 
As much beauty us conld die, 
| Which im life Did harbor give 
Co more birtue than doth libe. 


BEN JONSON, 
On Elizabeth L. H. 


4 direct that mp name be inscribed in plain 
Gnglish letters on mp tomb, fithout the addition 
of “Mr.” or “Esquire.” J conjure mp friends 
on no account to make me the subject of anp 
monument, memotinl, or testimonial ftobateber. 
§ rest mp claims to the remembrance of mp 
country upon mp nnblished forks, und to the 
remembrance of my friends upon their experience 


of me. CHARLES DICKENS, 
In his will. 


Hor my ame und memory, F lenbe it to men’s 
charitable speeches, to foreign mations, und to the 
next ages. BACON. 


After me the deluge. 


MADAME DE POMPADOUR, 


And pet it mobes. GALILEO. 
After he had recanted his heresy that the world 
moved. 


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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Co feign w birtue is to hube its opposite bice. 
ANON, 


Generosity is the flower of justice. 
HAWTHORNE. 


§ can make nobles hen J choose; God alone 
can make a man such as be fohom foe are going 


to lose. FRANCIS I., 
On leaving the death-bed of Leonardo da Vinci. 


GAbut is Plato but Moses in Attic Greek. 


NUMENIUS THE PYTHAGOREAN, 


§ am going to sech w great Perhaps. 
DYING WORDS OF RABELAIS., 


4 would meet mp Creator ufoake. 


MARIA THERESA, 
On her death-bed. 


Underneath this suble hearse 

Hies the subject of all berse ; 
Sidney's sister! Pembrohe's mother |! 
Death! ere thou bust slain another, 
Hearned, und fair, and good us she, 
Gime shall throw w dart at thee. 


This epitaph, from the Lansdowne MSS. in the British 
Museum, ts there attributed to William Browne, 
but Whalley says tt ts universally attributed to 
Ben Fonson, and William Gifford says it was writ- 
ten by the Earl of Pembroke. 


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Epigram and Epitaph. 


Chere taught us hot to like; and (oh, too high 

The price for knowledge!) taught us hot to die. 
TICKELL, 

On the death of Addison. 

Alus! hot much less delightful it is to libe 

fith those that surbibe, than it is to cherish 
recollection of pon. SHENSTONE. 


On Miss Dolmen, at the Leasowes. 


Here is that Raphael by Hhom, surbibing, 
Nature feared she Mould be surpassed, pet bith 
fobom, dying, she feared she fould die. 


CARDINAL BEMBO, 


Here lies Estrella, obo transported w large for- 
fune to beaben in acts of charity, und hus gone 
thither to enjoy it. ITALIAN EPITAPH. 


Good friend, for Jesus’ suke forbenr 

Go dig the dust enclosed here ; 

Hlest be the man that spares these stones, 
And curst be he thut mobes my bones. 


On Shakespeare's tomb, supposed to have been written 
by himself. 


Though J belong to the utheran confession, 


J do not desire to be followed to the grabe by any 
EY ST 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


tlerguman of thut denomination, und J fish to 
Dispense fith any other sacred solemnity at mp 
burial, bis is wot the foewk fancy of u free- 
thinker. Sor the lust four pears J bube cust 
aside all philosophical pride, and babe again felt 
the potwer of religions truth. 


HEINRICH HEINE, 
In his will, 


Pes, foe shull see God us he is, fuce to face. 
CONDE, 


When dying. 
Anu judgment a Restor, in genius x Socrates, 
in art u Virgil. 


On Martin Luther’s tomb. 


Shakespeure, the thousand-souled, 
COLERIDGE. 


She wenrs the crofn without the conflict. 
GARFIELD, 
On his infant child. 


“Tho plucked that flower,” cried the gar- 
Dener, us be foalked through the garden. Bis 
fellof-serbunts answered: “Che Master,” and 
the gardener held bis peace. 


In an old English Churchyard. 
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ee ee —_—<— 


or 


Epigram and Epitaph. 


Peaben deprives me of w fife Hho neber cansed 
me ung other grief thaw that of ber denth. 


LOUIS XIV. 


alot lost, but gone before, 


On Mary Angell, at Stepney, 1693. 


OChe society of Acsuits is a shoord Whose bundle 
is at Rome, and its point eberpiohere. 
DUPIN. 
Stranger, go tell the Pacedemonians thut foe 
lie here obedient to their command. 


Inscription on the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae. 


Pou habe made, sir, three faults in orthography. 


DE FAVRAS, 
To the clerk of the court which had given his death- 
sentence. 


Che blood of the martyrs is the seed of the 


Church. TERTULLIAN. 


A poet, naturalist, und historian, Moho scarcely 
left any style of foriting untouched, and touched 
nothing that he did not adorn, 


SAMUEL JOHNSON, 
On Goldsmith. 


The uttentibe eves that suf the manners in 


the face. SAMUEL JOHNSON, 
On Hogarth, 


2 


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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


And so sepulehered, in such pomp dost lie, 
Chat kings, for such a tomb, Mould wish to die. 
MILTON, 
On Shakespeare. 
Angelicr Ranfiman, doomed to tears and grief, 
to her sheetest, kindest husband, wot us she bad 
prapen. 
On the tomb of Antonio Zucchi. 
My epitaph shall be my name alone ; 
Af that With honor fail to cron mp clap, 
Ob, may no other fame mp deeds repay ; 
Chat, only that, shall single out the spot, 
By that remembered, ox foith that forgot. 


Byron's epitaph on himself. 


Harewoell! but not foreber. COWPER, 
On Northcote. 


God fills us free, man fills us slaves; JF will 
as God fills, God's will be done! Bere lies 
the boop of Aohw dach, u natibe of Africa, tho 
died in March, 1723, uged about sixty penrs. 
Though borw in wv land of slaves, he boas born 
free; though be libed iv a land of liberty, be 
libed uw slabe, till, bo his honest though stolen 


lubors, he ucquired the source of slaberp, Which 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 


gube him bis freedom; though not long before 
Death, the grand tyrant, gabe him his final eman- 
tipation and set bim on uw footing fith hings. 
Chough w slabe to hice, he practised those birtues 
fithout fhich kings ure but slabes. 

From a stone in the Concord, Mass., burying-ground. 

d fous Epictetus, a slube, a cripple, and a beg- 
gar, and dear to the immortals. 


Epitaph obich Fock Poung, av Oxfordshire 
squire, caused to be ent ow the stone that cobered 
donson’s grabe: 


© rare Ben Aonson! 


§ made mp life mp monument. 
BEN JONSON, 
On Sir Charles Cavendish. 


Here lies AEschylus, son of Euphorion, born 
in Aiticn. Be died in the fertile probinee of 
Gela, Persiv, and the grobes of Marathon will 


eber bear boitness to bis balor. 


On Atschylus,a brave soldier who fought at Marathon, 
written by himself. 


He hus emigrated. 


On the tontb of Hans Sachs. 
35 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Go this sud shrine, foho’er thou wrt! drab near; 
Bere lies the friend most lobed, the son most dear, 
Who wer knew joy but friendship might dibive, 
Or gabe his father grief but thew he died. 
Epitaph on Harcourt. 
Hor there is no dap, hofeber bewntiful, thut is 
not follofed by its night. 


On the tomb of Fean ad’ Orbesan, at Padua. 


Here J lie entombed; therefore J knol not, 

Hor do J care fohether thou knotoest : 

Aft thou urt foell, it is Well; fobile libing, J fous 
foell, 

And naphap J am fell eben nob ; 

Hut be it so or not, J cannot tell thee. 


On the ** Philosopher of Mantua,” Pomponazat (written 
by himself). 


4, the great Captain Peon Stoz3i, J do not 
lie here im this urn, for so small an ur could 
not contain so great a man; earth holds me no 
longer, for w glorp wider thaw the earth bus 
raised me to beaben as a beantiful star for mari- 
ners, so that, us in the olden time the foaters 
carried and sustained mp ships, and trembled 


under me, eben nolo it pleases me to become the 
36 


Epigram and Epitaph. 


God of the sex. Go, then, pe Who follow me 
and ure entrusted foith my office, go boldly forth 
upon the foaters ; for there ¥ bube traced out for 


pe a safe and certain path, 


Composed by Dubellay, for Leon Stozzt, a seaman in the 
service of France. 


Gdlit’s last edition is nol 7’ th’ press. 


HENRY VAUGHAN, 
On Fletcher. 


Boe! Hoe! who lies here? 

¥, the good Earl of Debonshire ; 

With Wand, my wife, ta mee full dere, 

Gale Inbed together ffty-fbe pear. 
What foe gue, we habe ; 
Ghat we spent, foe had; 
GAhat toe left, for lost. 


On the tomb of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon. 


On the tomb of Francois de Mercy, w general 
foho died of founds receibed iv battle nt Nord- 
lingen : | 

Stop, trabeller, thow trendest upon wu hero, 


dlature and nature’s latos lay bid iv night ; 
God suid, “Het Aebotow be!” and all fous light. 


POPE, 


On Str Isaac Newton. 


oe) 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


an Westminster Abbey, on Ephraim Cham- 
bers (fritter by himself) : 


Heard of by mang, kuown to fel, Who led a 
Wife between Fame und Obscurity, neither 
abounding nor deficient in learning, deboted to 
study, but us a man bho thinks himself bound to 
wl offices of humanity, habing finished bis life 
and bis labors together, bere desires to rest, 
Ephraim Chambers, obiit, May Toth, W240. 


Sardanapalus, son of Anacpndaraxes, caused 
the tofons of Anchiales und Carsus to be built in 
one Day. Bass on, stranger; eat, drink, and 


amuse thyself, for nought else is Worth w flip. 


On the tomb of Sardanapalus, according to Strabo, the 
Greek geographer. 


And at departure he fill say: “* Manst thou 
rest soundly and quietly, and map the light turf 


lie cusp on thy bones,” 
Epitaph written by Tibullus. 


He wus in truth a libing Bible endowed with 
breath, fobere the tooo cobenunts boere inscribed ; 


the Gospel und the Aa had each a bolume on 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 


bis heart. Mis head fous the index of the holy 
bolume ; his name the title, und bis life w com- 
mentary upow the text. Ob, tbat w Morthy and 
precious moment fobew be shull reappear in a 
nebo edition, Mithont errata; be Will then be re- 


bound for eternity. 


Ox Rev. Fohn Cotton, the New England preacher, who 
died, 1652. 


He is gone where ulone bis melodies tan be 


exceeded, 
On the tomb of Purcell, the English musical contposer. 


Mere lies Benry, the Scourge of Srance, 
1422. Virtue surmounts all opposition. Mere, 
uso, fith ber baliant spouse, lies the beautiful 
Catherine, Reep from sloth. 


On King Henry V.—Westminster Abbey. 


Che following is from a burping-ground in 
GHindsor, Connecticut, und is suid to be the oldest 


inscription on a monument in the State : 


Here Ipeth Ephraim Hoit, sometime teacher 
to the church of Gindsor, Sho died, September, 
Ath, 1-H. 

GAho fohen hee liked fore drew our bitull breath, 
39 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Cho Mhen hee dpid his dying fxs our denth, 
tho fous pe stay of Stute, ve chorshes stuff. 
Alas! the times forbid uv epitaph, 

Here lies Aohw Higley, those father and 
mother foere drofned on their pussage from 
America, Bad both libed, they would hube been 


buried here. 
Lipitaph in Belturbet, Ireland. 


Gpitaph composed by Simonides for Cimo- 
creon, w forestler and satirical rhpmester : 

Here lies Cimocreon, the Ahodian, Hho spent 
his days im eating, drinking, und slandering 
eberpbodp. 


182). Here lies, interred in the Eternity of 
the Qast, from fohence there is no resurrection 
for the dups,—twhuteber there muy be for the 
dust,—the Chirty-thivy Pear of aw ill-spent 
Hite, which, after a lingering disease of manp 
months, sunk into a lethargy, and expired, 
danuarp 22d, 1821, A.D., leabing a successor 
inconsolable for the berp loss fohich occusioned 


its existence, 
Lord Byron's epitaph on his 33d year. 


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Epigram and Epitaph. 


Bere lies the body of Thomas Vernon, the 


only surbibing son of Admiral Vernon. 
In Plymouth, England. 


Che modest front of this smull floor, 
Beliehe me, reader, ca say more 
Chav manp wa braber marble can,— 
“Here lies wv truly honest man.” 


On Ashton. 


Gpitaph placed by a Frenchman on bis moth- 
er’s tombstone : 
Hiret at the rendezbous, 


Gpituph ow the celebrated Groglish printer and 
bookseller, Jacob Conson, tho died in 1730: 

The bolume of his life being finished, here is 
the end of ducob Conson. Gleep, uuthors, and 
brewk pour pens: pour Conson, effaced from the 
book, is no more; but print this last inscription 
ow this last page of death, for fear that, delibered 
fo the press of the grabe, he, the editor, should 
fount a Title. “Here lies a bookseller, the leat of 
bis life being finished, nboaiting wu nef edition, 


fo 


angmented and corrected.” 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Sn Aliscombe churchyard, Debonshire, is the 
follotoing : 

Here lie the remains of James Padp, brick- 
maker, late of this parish, in hopes that bis clay 
foill be remoulded in wx forkmanlike manner, far 
superior to his former perishuble materials. 


Che body of Benjamin Franklin, printer 
(like the cober of an old book, its contents torn 
out, and stript of its lettering und gilding), lies 
bere, food for Morms; pet the foork itself shall 
not be lost, for it fill uppeur once more in w nebo 
and more beantiful edition, corrected und amended 
by the uuthor. (He was born dan. bth, 1706 ; 
died April 17th, 1790.) 


Franklin’s epitaph, designed by himself. 


Gndernenth is buried Sir Christopher Wren, 
builder of this church und city, Soho lied about 
ninety pears, not to himself, but to the public 
good. Reader! if thou seekest bis monument, 


look round, 
On Str Christopher Wren, in St. Paul’s, London. 


Aear this spot ure deposited the remains of 
one foho possessed beauty fithont banity, strength 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 


Mithout insolence, courage bithout ferocity, and 
all the birtues of man foithout bis bices. This 
praise, Which would be unmeaning flattery if 
inscribed ober human ashes, is but a just tribute 
to the memory of Boutshouin, u dog, ho fas 
born ut Aewofoundland, May, 1809, and died at 
dleostend Abbey, Nob. 18, 1808. 


Epitaph written by Lord Byron on his dog. 


GAi kindly bleat, fohew she did spp him, 
She ran for’ speed: 
A friend mair faithful ne'er came nigh him, 
Chaw Maile dead. 
ROBERT BURNS, 
On his favorite sheep. 
A resurrection to immortality is here expected 
for fohat fas mortal of the Reberend Mr. John 
Richardson, once fellow of Barbard College, 
ufteroards teacher to the church of HAewbury. 
put off April 7, VH28. 
Epitaph in Newburyport, Massachusetts. 
The following epitaph is at pebosey, Bedford- 
shire, Grgland : 
Bere lies the body of udp O'Hooney, great- 


wiece of Burke, commonly called the Sublime. 
43 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


She foxs bland, passionate, and deeply religions ; 
also she painted im Water-colors, and sent seberal 
pictures to the Exhibition. She fous first cousin 
fo Lady Jones, and of such is the kingdom of 
benben. 


Richard Basset, the old clerk of this parish, 
foho had continued the offtce of clerk and sexton 
for the spuce of forty-three pears, tobose melodp 
fous farbled forth as if he bad been thumped on 
the buck foith a stone, fous buried om the 20th 
September, 166. ln a Sussex chuvchvard: 


The epitaph on Thomas Wilson, Lord Bishop 
of the Asle of Wan, closes thus : 

Chis monument fons erected by his son, 
Thomas Wilson, w native of this parish, who, 
inv obedience to the express commands of bis 
father, declines gibing bim the character be justly 
Deserbed. Wet this island speak the rest. 


Gpitaph on X. Gedge, a printer, died 1818, 
in the churchyard of Bury St. Edmunds: 


Here rest the remains of X. Gedge, printer. 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 


Hike x Wworn-out character, he hus returned to 
the Founder, hoping that be fill be re-cust in a 
better und more perfect mould. 


oor Charles! His innocent pleasure fas to 
roto ow the Souter. Alas! he fous the bictim of 
this fatal desire, fohich conducted bim to the 
tomb, Reader! consider that the futer in Which 
he fous drofoned is the amassed tears of bis rela- 
HOES ANN ATIENNS, rn the cemetery of Montmartre. 

An epitaph on wu tombstone im Nebmarket, 


Gugland, ov one of tho Wwibes of Com Sexton, 
TeAds : 


Here lies the body of Sarah Sexton, 
She fous u bite that neber bexed one, 
d can’t say so much for the one ut the wert stone. 


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Philosophy 


PHILOSOPHY. 


Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy.—Romeo and $ultet. 
N attempting to define what utterances may be 
properly classified under the head of Philosophy, 
it seemed to me that they should generally be those 
which set forth or suggest a definite principle. Worldly 
philosophy and worldly wisdom are so near allied that per- 
haps any distinction would be fanciful; and the same is 
almost as true of Christian philosophy and religious wisdom. 
Still, I imagine that there is a metaphysical aspect to all 
themes, which is entitled to be called Philosophy rather than 
by the designation of her more irrefragable sister, Wisdom. 


4 


Philosophy. 


\ 


Rothing can be put, us it bere, into wv mental 
fucuum, and knofon in and bp itself. 


JAMES MARTINEAU, 


Man map Inp hiolent hands on himself and on 
bis ofow blessings, und for this he must im the 
second round deplore bis crime With unabailing 
penitence, Oar 


Che surest means to conbince one’s self of a 
life ufter denth is so to act im the present that 
one must fish it. FICHTE, 


GHhen thou art preparing to commit uw sin, 
think not that thou wilt conceal it; there is a God 


that forbids crimes to be hidden. — yputvs. 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Che grent Creator foe behold not; he beils 
himself foithin his ofow eternal lus. Che seep- 
fic sees their operution, but be beholds wot him. 
“Hberefore un God?” he cries; ‘ the world itself 
suffices for itself.” And the piety of no Chris- 
finn has praised him more than docs this sceptic’s 
blasphemy. SCHILLER, 


Any nebo formula which suddenly emerges in 
our consciousness hus its roots in long trains of 
thought ; it is birtually old When it first makes 
its uppeurunce among the recognized grofoths of 
our intellect. One 


4 neber, indeed, could persuade mpself thut 
souls confined in these mortal bodies can be prop- 
erly said to libe, und that, fohen thes lenbe them, 
they die; or thut they lose all sense Moher parted 
from these bebicles: but, om the contrary, MOohen 
the mind is fwholly freed from all corporal mix- 
ture, and begins to be purified, and recober itself 
again, then, und ther only, it becomes tralp 


knofsing nnd foise. CICERO, 
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Philosophy 


Do pou foonder that man goes to the gods? 
God comes tr men; nay, hat is pet neurer, be 
comes into men, alo good mind is holy without 


Gov. SENECA, 


Mere art deprubes taste; just us mere the- 


ology deprabes religion. hearst fue 


St is impossible for the human mind to think 
fyhat it thinks existent lapsing into non-existence, 
either in time pust or im time future, 


SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, 


The utheist, seeking God in hain through 
nuture, seems like the shudol denying the evist- 


ence of the sum because it never strikes upow it. 
ANON. 


Che footprints of u burbariun in the sand 
probe the presence of man to that same atheist 
foho denies the existence of a God of Mhose hand 
the fohole uniberse bears the maths. = non, 


Philosophy, like eberw thing else in a Chris- 
dan nation, should be Christian. 


AUGUSTUS HARE, 
a3 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Gt is the terror thut urises from bis ofon dis- 
honest and ebil life that chiefly torments a man; 
bis foickeduess dribes him to and fro, raching 
him to madness ; the consciousness of bad thoughts 
and forse deeds terrifies him: these are the neber- 
dying Furies that inwardly gua bis life aap. 


CICERO, 


Chey foho boust of their tolerance, merely gibe 
others lenbe to be us careless ubout religion us 


they are themselbes, AUGUSTUS HARE. 


Che idle business of shot, plans om the stuge, 
flocks of sheep, herds, exercises bith spears, 2 
hone cust to little dogs, a bit of bread in fish- 
ponds, Inborings of unts, and burden-carrping 
runnings ubont of little frightened mice, puppets 
pulled by strings,—this is fohat life resembles. 
at is thy duty, then, in the midst of such things 
to shot good humor, and not # proud air; to 
understand, hotueber, that ebery man is forth just 
so much us the things are Worth about Mhich he 


busies himself. MARCUS AURELIUS. 
Tosh 


Philosophy. 


Chere is ulvans room for x man of force, 
and he makes room for many. Society is a 
troop of thinkers, and the best bends among 
them tuke the best places. EMERSON. 


He foho does not see God eberpiobere fill find 
bim nofobere, ANON. 


Obe difference bethoeen heathen birtue und Chris- 
tian goodness is the difference betfoeen ours und 
suils, ov rather betfoeen guilens and ships. 


AUGUSTUS HARE, 


WHe must recognize w God from our fo minds 
before foe can detect a God in the universe of ma- 


ture. SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON. 


Fath in the beracity of our fuculties, if it 
means anp thing, requires us to beliebe that things 
are us they appear,—that is, appear to the mind 
in the last and highest resort. 


JAMES MARTINEAU. 


As to the immortality of the soul, the doctrine 


of stience can determine nothing; for there is 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


according to it no soul, und no Dping or mor- 
tality—therefore, ulso, no immortality ; but there 
is only life, and this is eternal in itself, and 
fhatcber life is it is just us this; therefore it 
ufirms, us desus 10: “Wbhosorber beliebeth in 
me, he neber dies, but it is giben to him to babe 
life in himself.” FICHTE, 


4 habe heard that, foheneber the mame of man 
is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is an- 


nounced ; it cleabes to bis constitution. 
EMERSON, 


for us laws ure necessary that good manners 
mip be preserbed, so there is need of good manners 
that Infos may be maintained. MACHIAVELLI. 


Hoble sentiments belong alike to the cultibater 
und to the rude; the former express, Mobile the 
Intter feel, them. ANON, 


Chere is no policy like politeness; and w good 
manner is the best thing in the World, either to 


get one x good name or to supply the fant of it, 


BULWER. 
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Philosophy. 


Small draughts of philosophy lend to atheism; 
but larger lead buck to Goo. NicoM 


Ge must reach one of tho results: either 
learn und discober bof the fact really stands; or 
else, should this be impossible, at least take up 
foith the best and most incontrobertible human 
belief respecting it; and then, borne upon this us 
im w shiff, benture the bovuge of life,—unless hoe 
run find w securer and less hazurdons passage on 
the firmer support of some Divine foord. 


PLATO, 


Hor Mhen J find that the middle condition of 
life is by far the happiest, J look with little 
fabor on thut of princes. HORACE. 


BHeanty is ut once the ultimate principle und 
the highest wim of urt. GOETHE, 


An instinctibe taste teaches men to build their 
churches in flat countries bith spire-steeples ; 
fobich, us they cannot be referred to ung other 
object, point as bith silent finger to the shy and 
stars, COLERIDGE, 

57 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


All high beauty bus u moral element in it, 
and J find the untique sculpture as etbicul as 
Marcus Antoninus, and the beauty eber in pro- 
portion to the depth of thought. 


EMERSON, 


Calent crentes a fork; genins keeps it from 
dying. 


ANON. 


Che crofoning fortune of w man is to be born 
to some pursuit tobich finds him in employment 
and buppiness,—tohether it be to make buskets, 
ot broadshords, or cunuals, or statutes, or songs. 


EMERSON, 


For many other reasons, the souls of the good 
uppear to me to be dibine and eternal ; but chiefly 
on this uccount, beeuuse the soul of the best and the 
foisest hus such anticipation of a future state of be- 
ing, that it seems to centre its thoughts only on 


eternity. CICERO. 


This forld is to the shurpest, benben to the 
most forthy. ANON. 
58 


Philosophy. 


at is a mistake to sap that it is doubtful 
fobether there is a God or not. Bt is not in 
the least doubtful, but the most certain thing in 
the World, nay, the foundation of all other cer- 
tainty—the only solid, absolute objectibitp—thut 
there is x moral gobernment of the forlb. 


FICHTE. 


Mt does not eben need philosophy to ennble us 
to despise poberty. Wook at the poor: are thep 
not often obbiously happier than the rich ? 


SENECA, 


Crention is conceibed, und is by us conceib- 
able, only us the ebolution of existence from 
possibility into actuality by the fiat of the Meitp. 


SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, 


"C is the fine souls foho serbe us, und not 
fohut is culled fine society. Sine society is onlp 
a self-protection uguinst the bSulguritics of the 
street und the tabern. EMERSON, 


GHe get benutiful effects from foit,—all the 
prismatic colors,—but neber the object us it is 
in fair daplight. ; HOLMES, 

9 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


G feeble man can see the farms that ure 
fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The 


strong man sees the possible houses und farms, 
EMERSON, 


Co the maw of superficial cleberness almost 
ebery thing readily takes a ridiculous aspect; to 
the man of thought ulmost nothing is really 
ridiculous, GOETHE, 


at is ensier to do justice to those foho ure no 
longer life, than to those Mho are onlp absent. 


ANON, 


Man is not born to solbe the problems of the 
universe, but to find ont fohere the problem be- 
gins, und then to restrain himself within the 
limits of the comprebensible. GOETHE. 


Co deul With the fact that things “only 
appear,” us if it constituted un eternal exile 
from their reality, is to attribute lunacy to 


unibersal reason. JAMES MARTINEAU. 


Man must ulfups in some sense cling to the 
belief that the unknofwable is knofouble, otherwise 


speculation Mould cense. GOETHE. 
60 


Philosophy. 


Co drat carientures of our contemporaries is 
not difftcult ; it requires only w small portion of 


talent und wu grent fant of courtesy, 
B. DISRAELI. 


J look upow eberp true thought us v baluuble 
acquisition to society, fohich cannot possibly hurt 
or obstruct the good effect of anp other trath 


fohutsorber. MIDDLETON, 


g take with me eberpiohere that best of men, 
Demetrins ; und, lending those who wear purple 
robes, J talk with bim tho is bulf-nahed. . . . 
Che shortest roud to riches lies through contempt 
of riches, But our Demetrius lives not us though 
he despised ull things, but as though be simply 
suffered others to possess them. Eran 


@w reberence for the nuthority of bygone gen- 
erations Depends the permanence of ebery form 
of thought or belief, as much us of all social, 
national, und family life; but on reberence of 
the spirit, not merely of the letter; of the 
methods of our ancestors, not merely of their 


conclusions. CHARLES KINGSLEY. 
61 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Gn ull that surrounds him, the egotist only 
sees the frame of bis ofw portrait. anon, 


Repetition is the mother, not only of study, 
but of education. Wike the fresco-puinter, the 
teacher lays colors ow the fort plaster obich eber 
fade uoap, and fohich he must eber rene until 
they remain and brightly shine. — ricurer. 


No hope so bright but is the beginning of its 
ofon fulfilment. Gbherp generalizntion shows the 
bap to w larger. TMIER Eo 


Che theist, {ho holos the doctrine of a posi- 
tibe creation of all things by un uct of bolition, 
Does not suppose that the Dibine nature suffers 
decrement by the sum of crevted existences; nor 
does be think of God as nol, in part eben, met- 
umorphosed into the uniberse; but us babing 
made space richer by an absolute angmentation of 


being. JAMES MARTINEAU, 


Qn the nature of Zens, om account of the 
causal potver, there probes to be inherent » hingly 


liging soul and kingly mind. SOCRATES. 
62 


Philosophy. 


as Dubens by one stroke conberted x lungh- 
ing into x crping child, so nature frequently 
mikes this stroke im the original; a child’s epe, 
like the sun, neber dratos fonter so readily us in 
the hot temperature of pleasure.  icurer. 


Che ultimate tendency of cibilizution is toward 


barbarism. _AUGUSTUS HARE, 


Sf pou cannot frame pour cirenmstunces in 
uccordunce fith pour fishes, frame pour bill 


into burmonp With pour circumstances. 
EPICTETUS., 


St is only before those fho are glad to hear 
it, und unxions fo sprend it, that be find it 
ensp to speak ill of others. LEAS, 


Plato knew, and proclaimed foith xs much de- 
tision us Comte on the other side, thut there could 
be no compromise; and that men must make their 
choice, tobetber im this uniberse they foere libing 
in the grasp of a blind, delirious giant, or bold- 
ing, us a child, the gracious band, and looking 
np into the clenr epes of Anfinite Dight and 


Dewson, ‘ JAMES MARTINEAU. 
3 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Since it is Probidence that determines the fates 
of men, their inner nature is thus bronght into 
unison. Chere is such hurmong, us in ull things 
of nature, that one might explain the Whole fith- 
out referring to a higher Providence. But this 
only probes the more cleurly and certainly this 
higher Probidence, tobich hus giben existence to 
ibis harmony. WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT. 

Ebery thing bus tho handles: one by which 
it map be borne, the other by which it cannot. 
df pour brother be unjust, do not take up the 
matter by that hundle—the handle of bis injus- 
tice,—for that handle is the one by fobich it 
cannot be taken up; but rather by the handle 
that be is pour brother, und then pou fill be 
taking it up us it can be borne. gpicrerus. 


Hothing is clearer than that all things ure in 
ull things, and that just according to the intensity 
und extension of our mental being fe shull see 
the mang in the one and the one in the mang. 

3 HOLMES. 
Chose blessings fhich fe ure foreber expect- 


ing are the only ones fobich neber deceibe us, 


64 ANON. 


Philosophy. 


Fortune is un ebil bond of the bodp, hice of 
the soul; for he is a slube those bodp is free 
but fobose soul is bound, und, on the contrary, 
be is free fohose body is bound but Mhose soul 


is free. EPICTETUS. 


Che names of ulmost all animals, so long us 
they ure alibe, are Saxon; fohen dressed and 
prepared for food they become Norman. . . 
Che Suxow bind had the charge und labor of 
fending and feeding them, but only that thep 
might appear on the table of bis Norman lord, 
Thus, ox, steer, cow, ure. Saxon, beef is Hor- 
man; calfis Saxon, Seal is Gorman; sheep is 


Suxon, but mutton, Torman. TRENCH. 


Did the Almighty, holding in his right band 
Truth, and in bis left Search after Cruth, deign 
to proffer me the one 4 might prefer, in all bu- 
mility, but foithout hesitation, J should request 


Search after Cruth. LESSING. 


To encourage talent is to create it, 
ANON, 
5 65 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Fatalism and atheism ure conbertible terms. 
Che only balid arguments for the existence of a 
Gov, und for the immortality of the human soul, 
rest on the ground of man’s moral naiure; con- 
sequently, if that moral nature be unnibilaten, 
fohich in any scheme of thorough-going neces- 
sity it is, ebery conclusion, estublished on such u 
nature, is unnibilated likebvise. 


SIR WM. HAMILTON. 
Go refer ull plensures to ussociation is to uc- 
knofoledge no sound but echo. syeusrus HARE. 


Chere is always w best tap of doing ebery thing, 
if it be to boil an egg. MMunners are the happy 
foups of doing things: euch once u stroke of 
genius ot of lobe,—nol repeated and hardened 


into usage. EMERSON, 


At ’s fwell Me should feel ws life’s w reckoning 
foe can’t make tice ober ; there's wo real making 
amends in this world, any more nor pou can 
mend a forong subtraction by domg pour addi- 


tion right. GEORGE ELIOT. 


dt is a bard but good laty of fate, that us ebery 


ebil, so eberp excessibe potuer, forars itself ont. 


HERDER. 
66 


Philosophy. 


Ebery individual man bus a bins hich he 
must obey; und it is only us be feels and obeps 
this that he rightly debelops and attains bis legiti- 
mate potoer iw the forld. mreaSOn! 


Cruth is so related and correlated thut no de- 
partment of ber realm is tobollp isolated. 


GARFIELD. 


Marriage is the beginning und the summit of 
all cibilizution. at mukes the subage mild; and 
ihe most highly cultibated man bas no better 


means of demonstrating bis mildness. 
GOETHE, 


Gf life, like the olibe, is a bitter fruit, then 
grasp both with the press, and they fill afford 
the stoeetest oil. RICHTER. 


Ho fe not ull ugree to cull rapid thought, 
noble impulse, by the name of inspiration? 
After our subtlest analpsis of the mental pro- 
cess, foe must still sup that our highest thoughts 
and our best deeds ure all giben to us, 


GEORGE ELIOT, 


Che soul is the perceiber und rebenler of truth. 


Ge know truth fohem foe see it, let sceptic and 
67 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


scoffer sup fobut they choose. Wile know truth 
fohen foe see it, from opinion, us We knob fen 
foe are nbouke that fe are nfowke. prerson. 


allusion is just as possible by error in the 
mind's neutral tint, as by a false laping om of 


the pure color. * JAMES MARTINEAU. 


Sumpuathize bith others, ut least externally, 
fohen they are in sorrow and misfortune; but 
remember in pour of heart that to the brabe 
and foise and true there is really no such thing 
as misfortune. EPICTETUS. 


GAhut this country longs for is personalities, 
grand persons, to counteract its materiulities, 
for it is the rule of the uniberse that corm shall 
gerbe mun, and not man corn. HERON 


Of all that exists, the only thing susceptible 
cf the prerogatibe of reason Wwe must pronounce 
to be soul; and this is inbistble, fohile fire and 
fonter, and earth und ait, all present themselbes 


th) bisible bodies. PLATO. 
68 


Philosophy. 


Che larger the uniberse of our faith, the more 
copious are the phenomens delivered to our phil- 
osophy. So that Christianity, far from con- 
fracting the compuss of our science, rather expands 
it fo its ofon sublime proportions. 

JAMES MARTINEAU, 

Jou must libe for another, if pow wish to 


libe for pourself. SENECA, 


Thut last day brings not to us extinction, but 
merely change of place. erunet 


My soul begaw to regret the harshness of mp 
first fords; J ulmost think it regretted them a 
moment before they foere uttered. dm like man- 
ner, foben one mects in the round a rut or a pud- 
dle, one sees it, but has not time to uboid it. 

XAVIER LE MAISTRE, 

Chow hast not what others habe, and others 
fount fobut thow hast got; out of this imperfect 
state of things springs the social good of the 
fyorld. df the gifts Which nature bestofoed on 
me did not fail mp neighbor, he Mould think of 
himself alone, and neber fouste u thought on me. 


CHRISTIAN GELLERT. 
69 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Our deeds determine us, xs much us foe deter- 
mine our deeds; und until fe know what bus 
been or Will be the peculiar combination of ont- 
fourd Mith intourd facts, obich constitutes a man’s 
critical uctions, it fill be better not to think our- 


selbes foise nbout his character. oop op Pater 


Co communicate our feelings und sentiments is 
naturul ; to take np What is communicated just as 
it is communicated, is culture. uric 


Che charlatun ascends to the lowest point of 
intellectual Iebel, like those rocks on the shore 
hich only grofw large us the tide goes out. 


ANON, 


Che name of “ foise” seems to me, O Phe- 
drus! w great mutter, und to belong to God 
alone, A maw may be more fitlp denominated 
“ philosophus,” “ foould-be-foise,” or some such 


wHMme, PLATO. 


He is not berw sure of self-upprobation fhe 


foo eagerly seeks thut of others. ANON, 
70 


Philosophy. 


Concentration is the secret of strength im poli- 
tics, iv four, in trade; in short, in all manage- 
ment of human uffuirs. EMERSON, 


4 canna turn ber, say Oobhat ¥ will. Ft’s 
allaps the fap for them meeh-faced people; pou 
map ’s foell pelt a bug o’ feathers us talk to ’em. 


GEORGE ELIOT. 


Che little dissutisfaction fMhich eberp artist 
feels at the completion of Work is the germ of x 
nef fork, AUERBACH. 


Genins is a mind of large general polvers, 
uccidentally determined to some particular direc- 


fiom, JOHNSON. 


at is ulups more bopeful—uloays, us J 
think, more philosophic—to throw the blame of 
failure on man, ow our ston selbes, rather than on 
God und the perfect lato of bis universe. 


CHARLES KINGSLEY, 


The grent doctrines of u future state, the 
dangers of a course of foichedness, and the eff- 


cacy of repentance ure not only confirmed in the 
pa 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Gospel, but are taught—especially the last is— 
with wu degree of light to Which that of nature is 
darkness, rear 


UHisdom is not, as pou think, wn art that can 
be learned; fisdom comes from abobe. Jt is 
fohat Heabew sends, und only to the children of 
earth foho turn themselbes to it. 


PAUL FLEMING. 


All the wise, true to the conscions dignity 
of Wisdom, sup, Mith one accord, that mind is 
king of beabew and earth. SOCRATES. 


All thut clothes a man, eben to the blue skp 
fohich cups bis hewd,—a little loosely,—shapes 
itself to fit exch particular being benenth it. 


HOLMES. 


Bow mang of our most cherished beliefs ure 
like those drinking-glasses of the ancient pattern, 
that serbe us forll so long as foe keep them in our 
hand, bnt spill all if foe attempt to set them dofon. 


HOLMES. 


That experience Which docs not make ug better, 


mukes us Morse. ANON. 
72 


Philosophy. 


Af vow fish to behold God, pou map see him 
mt ebery object nround; search in- pour breust, 
and pow fill fnd him there. And if pou do 
not pet perceibe fohere he dtwells, confute me, if 


pou can, and sap fohere be is not. 
METASTASIO. 


Hut understandest thow hots much eusier it is 
to be w pious bisionarp than to act an honest part 
in life? hot foillingly the forst of men is a 
pious enthusiast only—at times be himself is not 
really aboare of bis motibes—that he map not re- 
quire to uct un honest part ? LESSING. 


qreserbe pour just relations to other mew ; 


their misconduct does not affect pour duties. 
EPICTETUS. 


Gberp man bas libed long enough tbo bas 
gone through all the duties of lite with unblew- 
ished character. CICERO, 


Those foho ure altoxps seeing happiness among 
others ure those foho cam find it nolohere for 
themselbes. ANON. 

73 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Cime is no ugent, us some people appear to 
think, that it should accomplish unp thing of 


rself. AUGUSTUS HARE. 


Ahetoric may be taught, if uny one thinks it 
forth lexrning ; but eloquence is a gift us inmate 
as the genius from which it springs. parpar. 


GHhen the ambitions man foithdraws from the 
parties fobich habe raised him to potver, be re- 
sembles the fool, f&ho, mounting a ladder, breaks 
the rounds ufter bimv: should be fall, it Mould be 
into wn ubpss. on 


bo eber knew truth put to the Morse in a 
free and open encounter ? MILTON. 


Wang people caw ride ow borsebach fhe find 
it hurd to get on und to get off fithout ussist- 
ance, One has to dismount from an wen, nnd 


get into the saddle aguin, at ebery parenthesis. 
HOLMES. 


Mt seems us if foe kept part of that happiness 
fobhich foe gabe abap. ANON. 
74 


Philosophy. 


Chere is in ebery unimal’s epe w dim image 
and gleam of humanity, x flash of strange light 
through which their lite looks out und up to our 
great mystery of command ober them, und claims 
the fellowship of the creature, if not of the soul, 


RUSKIN. 


Chat fobhich fe ure foe shull teach, not bol- 
untarilp, but inboluntarily. Thoughts come ints 
our minds by wbennes fobich foe neber left open, 
and thoughts go out of our minds through 
abennes fohich fe weber Soluntarily opened. 
Character teaches ober our head. emerson. 


Che best of us being unfit to die, fhat at in- 
expressible ubsurdity to put the worst to death! 


HAWTHORNE, 


Chere ure human tempers, bland, glowing, and 
genial, foithin Whose influence it is good for the 
poor in spirit to libe, us it is for the feeble in 


frame to busk in the glow of noon. 
CHARLOTTE BRONTE, 


The hate fe beur our enemies injures their 


happiness less than ours. ANON, 
75 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Che umbitions mun treats his friends like the 
rounds of a ladder, first seizing them by the band 
to mount uphard, und then trampling them 
underfoot. ANON, 


Genius, like w torch, shines less in the broad 
light of the present than in the night of the past. 


ANON, 


Che best o° Working is, it gibes pou a grip 
hold o' things outside pour oben lot. 


GEORGE ELIOT. 


Ao man bus w prosperity so bigh or firm but 
thoo or three foords can dishearten it. GOhere is 
no calamity fobich right tords fill not begin to 
redress. ANON. 


Be thut striketh un instrument With shill, may 
cunse nothithstanding a bery unpleasant sound 
if the string Whereow pe strikes chance to be 


incapuble of harmony, RICHARD HOOKER, 


Altaps there is w black spot im our sunshine ; 


it is the shadotv of ourselbes, ena ek 
76 


Philosophy 


Gmotion, J fear, is obstinately irrational ; it 
insists ow carmg for indibiduals ; it absolutely 
refuses to adopt a quuntitatibe bie of human 
anguish, and to admit that thirteen happy libes 
are a set-off uguinst thelbe miserable lites, fbich 


leabes a clear balance ow the side of sutisfaction. 
GEORGE ELIOT, 


Sop is the muinspring im the Whole round of 
eberlusting ature ; jop, joo mobes the Wheels of 
the great timepiece of creation; she it is that 
loosens flowers from their buds, suns front their 
firmament; she that rolls spheres in distant 


space, seen not by the glass of the astronomer. 
SCHILLER. 


¥ sometimes think the less the hint thut stirs 
the antomatic machinery of association, the more 


easily this mobes us. HOLMES. 


Aw the centuries before us, humanity appears 
io us to be growing up; in those fohich come 
nfter us, to be fading afay; im our ofon, to 


burst forth in glorious bloom: thus do the 
oF 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


clouds, onlp foben iv our Zenith, seem to mobe 
straight forward ; those in front of us come np 
from our horizon, the others behind us sail dofn- 
fourd with foresbortened forms. RICHTER. 


Che protection of the great is like the shelter 
of those high trees Shich protect us from the 
rain but attract the lightning. ANON. 


He Hho hus wx good sent should not lebe it, 


DON JUAN MANUEL. 


Chere is wo external politeness Mhich bus not a 
root in the moral nature of man. Forms of 
politeness, therefore, should neber be inculeated 
on poung persons fithout letting them under- 
stand the moral ground on tobich all such forms 


Tesh. GOETHE. 


Wherever there is failure there is some guddt- 


ness, some superstition vbont luck, some step 


omitted, fobicy nature neber pardons. 
; EMERSON, 


dior the boty cannot possibly stand altouns 
bent, nor caw human nature or human frailty 


subsist Without some lnwful recreation, 


CERVANTES. 
78 


Philosophy. 


Cle cannot probe our faith by spllogisms. 
The urguent refuses to form in the mind. You 
cannot make uw foritten theory or demonstration 
of this. dt must be sucredly trented. 


EMERSON. 


Che ablest foriter ig a gurdener first, and then 

a cook, Ais tasks are, carefully to select and 

cultibate bis strongest und most nutritibe thoughts, 

and, foher thes ure ripe, to dress them fobole- 
somely, and so that they map babe w relish. 
AUGUSTUS HARE. 


How con wu maw learn to know himself? By 
reflection weber, only by uction, Aw the meusure 
in fohich thou seekest to do thy duty shalt thou 
know fohut is iw thee. But Mbhat is thy dutp? 
Che demand of the hour. 


GOETHE. 


J care for myself. Ohe more solitary, the 
more friendless, the more unsustained J um, the 


more J foill respect myself. 
CHARLOTTE BRONTE, 


GAhew pou ure reading wv book, and an agree- 
able iver suddenly enters pour imagination, pour 
soul attaches herself to the nefo iden at once, and 
forgets the book, tobile pour eves follow mechani- 


79 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


cully the fords und lines. Bou get through the 
page Without understanding it, and without re- 
membering fhat pow babe rend. low this is 
because pour soul, hubing ordered her companion 
to read to her, guoe no foarning of the short ub- 
sence she contemplated, so that the other foent on 
reading fohat the soul no longer attended to, 


XAVIER LE MAISTRE., 


Gberp man has w rainy corner of bis life, ont 
of fohich foul Wenther proceeds, und follots wfter 


bam. RICHTER. 


Fools that fe ure! Why should fe fear 
our knees to horn, and sorrofofullp beat our 
breasts, praping day und night to Wammon, 
foho, if be fwould eben hear us, has almost 
nothing to gibe? For, granting that the dend 
brute-god foere to relent for our sacrificings—to 
change our gilt brass into solid gold, and, instead 
of hungry actors of rich gentility, make us all in 
herp deed Rothschild-Hobards to-morro—twhat 
good feere it? Are fe not ulreadp denizens of 
this fondrous England, With its high Shake- 
speares and Bampdens; nap, of this foondrous 

80 


Philosophy. 


uniberse, bith its qulaxies und eternities, und un- 
speakuble splendors, that foe should so forty, 
and scramble, und fear one another in pieces for 
some uctes (nap, still oftener, for the shot of 
some ucres), more or less, of clay property? the 
largest of Mobich properties—the Sutherland itself 
—is inbisible from the moon. CARLYLE. 


Jf pou ure robbed, remind pourself that pour 
pence of mind is of more balue und importance 


thun the thing Which has been stolen from pou, 
EPICTETUS., 


Go recall benefits fe bube bestowed shots 
fount of tact; to forget those bestobed on us, 
shotus fount of beart. ANON, 


Virtue is not to be considered im the light of 
mere innocence or ubstaining from harm; but us 


the exertion of our faculties in doing good. 
JOSEPH BUTLER. 


Chere is no uccounting for the difference of 
minds or inclinations; fbich leads one man to 


obserbe with interest the debelopment of phenom- 
6 81 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


ena, another to speculate on the causes; but fere 
it not for this hupppy disagreement it may be 
doubted fohether the higher sciences could eber 
hube attained eben their present degree of perfec- 


tion, SIR JOHN HERSCHEL, 


One morsel ’s us good us another fMben pour 


month ’s out o’ taste. GEORGE ELIOT. 


at must indeed be an undiseriminating nund 
fohich cannot see that a true cause is one thing, 
and guite another is that fithout Mbich the cause 
could neber babe causality ; pet this, it seems, is 
fohat most men, With thought groping us in the 
bark, designate as the cause itself, ussigning it a 
name to fobich it bas no right. Pres 


at is true that misfortune—renl misfortune 
(vot imaginary, fobich foe ereute for onrseloes)— 
is the surest touchstone of human excellence, and 
that equanimity and strength of mind belong es- 
pecinlly to it; to ork Without constraint on the 
fyorld, fohew fate cuts off ull our springs of en- 
jopment, and eben binds our bands in forking. 


GEORGE FORSTER. 
82 


Philosophy. 


Mow munpy think to atone for the ebil they. 
bube done by the good thep intend to do, and are 
only Sirtuons in prospectibe ! ANON. 


Our thoughts are often more than foe are, just 
as they are otten better than fe wre. And Gord 
sees us as fe are altogether, not in separate 
feelings or actions, as our fellof-men see ns, 
GHe ure uloaps doing each other mjustice, und 
thinking better or forse of each other thaw fe 
Deserbe, because fe only hear separate feelings or 


actions, le don’t see each other's fhole nature. 
GEORGE ELIOT. 


Abstract wWens and great conceit are eber on 


the rond to produce terrible catastrophes. 
GOETHE. 


The ludicrous hus its place iv the uniberse; it 
is not x human inbention, but one of the Divine 
ens, illustrated in the practical jokes of hittens 
and monkeps long before Aristophanes or Shake- 


SPeare, HOLMES. 


Our efficiency depends so much ow our concen- 


tration, that lature usually, in the instances 
83 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


fohere & marked mun is sent into the forld, 
oberlouds him bith bias, sucrificing bis symmetry 
to his forking potoer. arneert 


Hiberty is the right to do Mohut the laws allot; 
and if w citizen could do fohat they forbid, it 
foould be no longer liberty, because others fould 
babe the same potoers. MONTESQUIEU. 


Che present is neber our goul: the past and 
the present are out means; the future alone is 
our goul, Obhus foe are neber libing, but foe 
hope to live; and looking forfoard ulfoaps to be 
happy, it is inebitable that foe should weber be so. 


PASCAL, 


df pou choose to represent the barions parts in 
life by holes upon w table, of different shapes, 
some citculur, some triangular, some aquure, 
some oblong; und the persons acting those purts 
by bits of food of similar shapes, foe shall gen- 
erally find that the triangular person bus got ints 
the square bole, the oblong into the triangular, 
and w squire person bas squeezed himself into 2 


round bole. SYDNEY SMITH. 
84 


Philosophy 


dlature seems to exist for the excellent? The 
forld is upheld by the berucity of good men: 
they muhke the earth foholesome. We cull our 
children und our lands by their names; their 


forks und efhgies ure i our houses. 
EMERSON, 


Che reuson fohp so felv people ure agreeable in 
tonbersution is, that each is thinking more on 
fohat be is intending to say thaw on fohat others 
nre saying, und that foe neber listen Moher foe are 


Desitous to speak, LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 


Hot difficult it is to bring wv matter before the 
mind of another for his opinion, tithout gibing 
a bias to bis judgment ! PRSGALE 


As foe grow lees poung, the aged grow less 
old: us if time guoe ns the peurs it took from 


them. ANON. 


A man that is poung in pears mug be old in 
hours, if he bube lost no time, fobicl happeneth 


rarely. BACON- 
85 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Che brillimney of genins is wdmired less than 
its defects are noticed; us the sun is especinlly 
obserbed on the dups of its eclipse. anon, 


GHorloly fame is nothing but w breath of find 
that blots not this foup, nob that, and changes 
name us it changes sides. DANTE 


Che more fe deny ourselbes, the more the gods 
supply our fants. HORACE. 


GHomen, iv a course of auction, deseribe w 
smaller circle thaw men: but the perfection of a 
circle is not i its Dimensions, but im its correct- 


WlES, HANNAH MORE, 


Pou weber weed think pou can turn ober any 
old falsehood fithout w terrible squirming and 
scattering of the horrid little population thut 
Divells under it. HOLMES, 


GHbhere there ure laws, he Who bas not broken 
them need not tremble. AL aTERT: 
86 


Philosophy. 


Andicision mars all success: there caw be no 
good find for thut sailor foo knots not to fohut 
port he is bound, ANON. 


As for farming, it’s putting money into pour 
pocket for pour right band and fetching it out for’ 
pour left, . . . Gt’s more thun flesh and 
blood ’ull bear sometimes, to be toiling and strib- 
ing, and np carly and dofow late, and hardly 
sleeping a Wink fohen pow lie dofn for thinking 
as the cheese may smell, or the coos map slip 
ther caloes, or fohent may grow green uguin i’ the 
sheaf ; and atter all, at th’ end of the peur, it’s 
as if pou ’d been cooking a feast and bad got the 


smell of it for pour puins. PE OR OTT TOT 


Che bee and the serpent often suck ut the self- 
same flower; but the food undergoes in then 
grent change, for the flower becomes poison in the 
breast of the serpent, fobile in the bee it becomes 


n sboeet liquid. METASTASIO, 


Cruth fos the message fobich all great men 


bad to communicate to the human race; truth, 
87 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


the relation of things to one another und to us. 
Chey discharged properly their commission, and 
gube ns truth, the jeboel of the hise, the shord in 


the fool's band. GEORGE FORSTER. 


De who gives np the smallest part of w secret 
bas the rest uo longer in his poter. 
RICHTER. 


GHe prefer to perfect people those Hho are 
worth something to ourselbes, ANON, 


A foenk mind sinks under prosperity us foell 
ag under udbersity. A strong and deep mind 
bus theo highest tides,—foben the moow is ut the 


full, and fobhew there is no moon, 
JULIUS HARE, 


Be cannot habe w grent deal of mind fhe can- 
not afford to let the larger part of it lie fallofy, 


MARGARET FULLER. 


Che clearness of the wir ow mountain tops 
Deceibes the epe, und brings the distant objects 
wear; und, in like manner, the clearer the talent 


of un author, the ensier it seems to reach. 


ANON, 
88 


Philosophy. 


Power will uccomplish more by gentle than bp 
hiolent means, und calmness fill best enforce the 


imperial mundute, CLAUDIANUS. 


GHe ure neber good enough at the bottom in 
out ofen eyes to be abobe trping to appear so to 


the epes of others. ANON, 


® faithful conscience, delicately clear, hobo doth 
w little failing found thee sore | DANTE. 


GHooden folks bud weed bu’ Wooden things to 


bundle, GEORGE ELIOT. 


dt is by no means necessary to understand 


things to speak confidently ubout them. 
BEAUMARCHAIS, 


Gile gibe altogether too little importance to 
hat fe say of others, und too much to fohat © 


they sup of neg, ANON. 


Who is the happiest person? We Whose na- 
ture ashs for nothing that ibe foorld dors not 
ish und nese, GOETHE. 

89 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


du speaking of a child, foe bube pleasure not 
onlp from fwhat toe see, but eben from fohut foe 


ho pe for. GOETHE. 


GHe may receibe so much light as not to see, 
wd so much philosophy as to be forse than 


foolish, LANDOR. 


A man cur neber do any thing at bariance With 
his ofow nature, He carries oithin him the germ 
of his most exceptional action; and if foe Wise 
people make eminent fools of ourseloes on anp 
particular occasion, foe must endure the legitimate 
conclusion that foe carry a feo grains of folly to 
our ounce of foisdom., GEORGE ELIOT. 


The longer J lie and learn experience, the 
more J wm conbinced that indibidual actions 
probe nothing either for or ugninst a man; the 
fohole life must be takew into uccount, for there is 
wo other mensure of character thaw the relation of 
the foill to the conscience, or the feeling of right 
and hrong. GEORGE FORSTER. 

gO 


Philosophy. 


Go succeed in our fork, We should exuggerate 
its importance. ANON. 


The feo mew Who think iv common bith us 
are much more necessary to us thaw the fohole of 
the rest of mankind; thep gibe strength and tone 


to ont principles. GEORGE FORSTER. 


Gf thow conquerest, do not exult too openly; 
nor, if thow art conquered, befowil thy fate, Iping 
dofow in thy house. HORACE. 


Chere is w fellowship among the birtues, by 
fohich one great, generous passion stimulates 


another ; GARFIELD. 


GHhen the political economist reckons np the 
unproductibe classes, he should put at the bead the 
tliss of pitiers of themselbes, crubers of sym- 


pathy, betowiling imaginary disasters. 
EMERSON, 


Che ingratitude of our children recalls to us 
the kindness of our fathers. eS. 
gi 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Sin hae many tools, but a lie is the handle 
fhich fits them all. Nee 


Che modernness of ull good books seems to 
gibe me um existence us Wide as man. What is 
foell done J feel us if ¥ did; What is ill done J 


rech not of, EMERSON. 


The desire of potoer in excess caused angels to 
fall; the desire of knotoledge in excess cansed 
man to fall; but in charity is wo excess, neither 


can man ot angels come into danger by it. 
BACON. 


Gherp thing in Which J habe beew enguged in 
this foorld, as the wisest of men think, will be 
regarded in vfter-ages us belonging to my souls 
at present, ut ull chents, J delight myself with 
such thoughts and hopes. CICERO. 


GB Wise man fill so uct that Mhateber he does 
map rather seem Soluntary und of bis ofow free 
fill than done by compulsion, boleber much he 


may be compelled by necessity. 


MACHIAVELLI. 
92 


Philosophy. 


Loud indignation aguinst bice often stands for 
birtue fith bigots. ANON, 


Gile place a happy life in tranquillity of mind. 


CICERO, 


Success feeds foith fresh hopes; they are able 


to conquer because then seem to be able. 
VIRGIL. 


Che goods of fortune seldom ubuil anp thing 
tofoard the relief of misfortunes sent from henben. 


CERVANTES. 


Speech is like cloth of QArras opened und put 
abrowd, fobereby the imagery doth appear in 
figure; fobereas in thoughts they lie but us in 


packs. PLUTARCH. 


Men's libes are as thoroughly blended with 
exch other us the wir they breathe; ebil spreads 
ns necessurily as diseuse. GEORGE ELIOT. 


Af he does really think that there is no distinc- 
tion betfoeen birtue und hice, Ooby, sir, oben be 


lenbes our houses lef us count our spoons, 


JOHNSON. 
93 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


St requires more charms und uddress in omen 
to rebibe one fainting charm than to kindle nebo 


Owes, SWIFT. 


Gf we Wish to be just judges of ull things, let 
ug fitst persuade ourseloes of this :—thut there is 
not one of us Without fault. Cenont 


The philosopher und lober of man babe much 
barm to say of trade: but the historia fill see 
that trade fas the principle of liberty; that trade 
plantes America and destroped Feudalism; that 
it mukes peace and keeps pence. emerson. 


Hemember that pou ure un uctor of just such # 
part us is assigned pou by the Poet of the plap; 
of a short purt, if the purt be short; of a long 
part, if it be long. Should He Mish you to uct 
the part of beggur, take care to uct it naturally 
and nobly; and the same if it be the purt of a 
lame man, or a ruler, or x private man; for this 
is in pout potoer, to uct fell the part assigned to 
pou; but to choose thut part is the function of 


another : EPICTETUS. 
94 


Philosophy 


Che lu is w sort of hocus-pocus science, that 
smiles in per fuce fobile it picks per pocket; and 
ihe glorious unceriuinty of it is of mair use to 


the professors thuw ihe justice of it. 
MACKLIN. 


Gherp one feels that he is something else than 
a nothing fobich bus been animated bo another. 
From this urises the confidence that death, though 
it may put an end to life, does not close man’s 


existence. SCHOPENHAUER. 


Chere ’s things go ow in the soul, und times 
fohen feelings come into pou like w rushing mighty 
find, us the Scripture suns, and part pour life in 
ioo u’most, so us pou look ow yourself us if pon 


fous somebody else, GHORGCHE HELIO TR. 


Pou foould fish to be proud of pour daughters 
and not to blush for them—thew seek for them 
an interest and an ocenpution fobich shall raise 
them ubobe the flirt, the munenbrer, the mischief- 
making tale-benrer. CHARLOTTE BRONTS, 


Let aman foho funts to find abundance of 
employment, procure a Soman and a ship; for 


93 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


no tho things do produce more trouble if pou 
begin to equip them; neither ure these thoo things 
eber equipped enough, nor is the largest amount 


of equipment sufficient for them. rus, 


Ge praise fwillingly in others those merits 
fohich foe fancy fe ourselbes possess. 


ANON, 


Suppose fe put a fax upow learning ? 
Henrning, it is irue, is x useless commodity, but 
d think foe bud better lay if om ignorance; for 
learning being the property of fel, and those poor 
ones, ¥ am afraid foe cam get little among them; 
fohereas ignorance fill inke inv most of the great 


fortunes in the kingdom. FIELDING. 


Be thut hus once done pou w kindness fill be 
mote ready to do pou another than be Shom pou 
pourself habe obliged, HOLMES. 


Che caprices of Momanhind are not limited by 
any climate or nation, and they are much more 
uniform than can be imagined. SWIFT, 


gO 


Philosophy. 


Co the student oho professes his Mish to rise 
to u loftier grude of birtue, J Would answer that 
this is mp wish ulso, but J dare not hope it. g 
amt preoccupied foith hices. SENECA. 


Chere is this disadbuntage in foriting, Mhich 
brings it into exact unalogy foith painting: The 
artist's productions stand before pou as if thep 
foere ulibe; but if pou ask them anp thing, thep 
keep w solemm silence. Gust so with an anthor’s 
language; pou fould fancy it actually churged 
frith the thoughts it speaks; but if pow ash it 
nbout something fobhich pou fant to bube ex- 
plained, it only looks ut pou With the same inbari- 
able sign. PLATO. 


Gberp one is ulone Moho hus an indibidual 


nature: there is no complete agreement. 
AUERBACH. 


“Holo did pou acquire pour great fortune?” 
ous asked of Zampis, the ship-ofner. “Wy 
great fortune, easily; my small one, by dint of 
exertion,” he anstvered. NON 

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Short Sayings of Famous. Men. 


Make men realize holo much better w different 
choice Would render them, und this nebo light fill 


change their soul. SOCRATES. 


GAith ull troubles, mew suffer far less from the 
things ihemseloes thaw from the opinions thep 


babe of them. EPICTETUS. 


dlature bas her language, and she is not un- 
berucions ; ut fe don’t know all ihe intricacies 
of her apntax just pet, and iv a busty reading foe 
map huppen to extract the berp opposite of ber 


real mening. GEORGE ELIOT. 


Ansanity is often the logic of uw accurate mind 
oberiusked, Good mental machinery ought to 
break its of foheels and Iebers, if anp thing is 
ihrust among them suddenly fohich tends to stop 
ihem or reberse their motion, sets 


Time has delicate little fowbes, but the shurpest- 
cornered pebble, after all, becomes smooth and 
blunt therein at last. eee 


Q 


98 


Philosophy. 


G say uguin that this is most true, und all bis- 
forp bears testimonp to it, that mem map second 
fortune, but they cannot thoart ber,—thep man 
foenbe her foeb, but they cannot break it. 


MACHIAVELLI. 


Che grentest punishment uw rascal can habe is 
to find out himself. RNON 


Go rule one’s self und subdue one’s passions is 
so much the more praiseworthy, us feb knob bof 
io do so, und in proportion us the canses that 


excite our indignation and desires are more just. 
GUICCARDINI, 


Hoble blood is uw accident of fortune; noble 
actions characterize the great. GOLDONI. 


Ghose ucts wv hundred times With high moral 
principle before be speaks of it once, thut is a 
man fobom one could bless und clasp to one’s 
heart. ¥ am far from saping that be is on thut 
account free from faults, but the plus et minus— 
the degree of stribing alter perfection und birtue 


—Netermines the bulue of the man, 
GEORGE FORSTER, 
oH, 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Gherp man bus his block gisen him, and the 
figure he cuts foill depend berp much upon the 
shape of that—npon the hnots and thists fobich 
existed from the beginning, . . . ft is the 
bain endenbor to make ourseloes fobut fe are not 
that bus stretow history with so many broken 
purposes, und libes left in the rough. 


LOWELL, 


Co be puffed np by x good action is to gibe 


reason to suppose thut it is out of our usual corse. 
ANON, 


St is eusier to acquire aw birtue than to get rid 
of a bie. ANON. 


Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders 
of the fobole toorld, in order to conceibe thetr great 
idens or perform their great deeds. That is, there 
must be un atmosphere of greatness round about 
them. A bero cannot be w hero unless in an 


heroic foorld. HAWTHORNE. 


Choice or thrice the poung bird map be deceibed, 
but before the epes of the full-fledged it is bain to 


spread the net, or speed the arrow.  panre. 
I0O 


Philosophy. 


Sw literature, quotation is good only fohen the 
foriter Hhom J follow gocs my way, and, being 
better mounted thaw d, gibes me wu cast, us fe 
sap; but if g like the gap equipage so fell us to 
go ont of my road, J bud better babe gone afoot. 


EMERSON, 


Anbentibe potoer is the only quality of which 
the Greatibe Intelligence seems to be economical ; 
just us foith our largest human minds, thut is the 
dibinest of faculties, und the one that most ex- 


bausts the mind tobich exercises it. 
HOLMES. 


Che minds of our statesmen, like the pupil of 
the human epe, contract themselbes the more, the 
stronger light there is shed upon them. 


MOORE. 


Of foe should take atony from the length of our 
days those fobich the impatience of our desires 
bus fished aboap, the longest lite Mould be much 
shortened, ANON. 


Strength goes straight. Gberp cannon-ball 
that bas in it bollows and holes goes crooked. 


RICHTER. 
IOI 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


GHe begin by proftting by the foewkness of u 
man tubo is too hind, and end by laughing at bim. 


ANON. / 


When at a game of chance, the play is ended, 
the loser, griebing, stays, und repeating each 
throw, sadly lenrns hot fortune map be mended, 
fobile all the rest go with the immer. panre. 


A philosophy tohich creates antinomies map 
habe the highest merit but one; the highest of ull 
is reserbed for u philosophy that resolbes them. 


JAMES MARTINEAU. 


Go err is human; but the pain felt for the 
crime that bas beew committed separates the good 
from the bad. ALFIERI. 


J beliebe—J daily find it probed—that foe can 
get nothing iv this orld worth keeping, not so 
much us a principle or a conbiction, except out of 
purifving flame, or through strengthening peril. 

CHARLOTTE BRONTE, 
A fide-spreading, hopeful disposition is pour 


only true umbrella in this bale of tears. 


ALDRICH. 
102 


Philosophy. 


As fire, fohen it is throtew into fater, is cooled 
Down and put out, so also u false uccusation, 
fohen brought ugainst w man of the purest und 


holiest character, falls atoap ut once and bunishes. 
CICERO. 


All successful men bube agreed in one thing, 
—ihep foere cuusationists. Chey beliebed thut 
ibings foent not by luck, but by Inf. Belief in 
compensition—or, that nothing is got for noth- 


ing—thuracterizes ull buluable minds. 
EMERSON. 


A thought is often original though you babe 
uttered it a hundred times. dt bus come to pou 
ober w nef route, by a webs und express train of 


ussocintions. HOLMES. 


Happiness is fohere it is found, and seldom 
fohere it is songht. ANON, 


GHe ure not all able to accomplish the sume 


things. VIRGIL, 


Gnrbp, like flame, blackens that which is ubobe 


it and fobich it cannot rench. ANON. 
103 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


A rogue wlibe to the ridiculous is still conber- 
tible. Af that sense is lost, bis felloto-men can 
Do little for him. EMERSON, 


An enemp’s misfortune softens the rancor of 
the good, but strengthens that of the bud, as sun 
melts the snow and burdens mud. ANON. 


Sw extreme danger, fexr turns x deaf ear to 
eberpy feeling of pity. CASAR. 


Chere is nothing Mbhich tings its flight so 
swiftly us calumny, nothing tobich is uttered bith 
more euse; nothing is listened to foith more 
readiness, nothing dispersed more fidelp. 

CICERO, 


Ao man can make w speech alone, Ot is the 
great human potoer that strikes up from a thou- 
sand minds thut ucts upon bim and makes the 


speech, GARFIELD. 


GHhen ang one remains modest not after praise 


but after censure, them be is truly so, 
RICHTER. 
104 


Philosophy. 


§ commend fortune fbile she stays; if she 
flaps ber shiftlp-mobing tings, J resign fobhut 
she has bestotoed, and, forapping myself in the 
mantle of mine ofr integrity, seek only honest 
poberty. HORACE. 


Hament pour kinsmen ith moderation, for 
they ure not dead, but bube gone before on the 
same rod along fohich foe must necessarily pass ; 
then foe, too, herenfter, shall come to the same 
resting-place, about to spend the remainder of our 
time ulong fith them. ANTIPHANES. 


Che imprudent man reflects on Hhat he hus 
said; the foise man, on obhat be is going to say. 
ANON. 


The critic is often more plensed fith the fanlt 
he wlone finds in a book, thaw fith all the beauties 
fohich he admires in the rest of the fork. 


ANON, 


Some disheliebe in others’ Woes that they need 
not pity them; others deplore all, that they map 


get rid of allebiating any. ANON. 
105 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Do not be supercilions, but cling to the things 
fobich appear best to pou in such a manner us 
though pow foere conscions of bubing been up- 
pointed by God to this position. jpicrerys. 


GHe often bute for one little reason, fMohen 
there ure u thousand fhp be should lobe. 


ANON, 


Chere ’s nothing like settling with ourselbes as 
there 's u deal foe must do fithont 7’ this lite.” 


GEORGE ELIOT, 


Chou shouldst eat to libe, not lige to eat. 
CICERO, 


Chere is no luck in literary reputation. Chep 
foho muke up the final berdict upon ebery book 
are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour 
foe it appears, but u court us of ungels, x pub- 
lic wot to be bribed, not to be entrented, und not 
to be oberatoed. EMERSON. 


GHe alwuns find better reasons for liking life 
than the fear of death, and pet that is the best. 


ANON, 
106 


Philosophy. 


Che worst drop of bitterness can weber be 
frung on to our lips from fithout: the lotvest 
depth of resignation is mot to be found iv mar- 
tyrdom; it is onlp to be found fhe foe habe 
cobered our bends im silence, and felt: “ J um not 
forthy to be w martyr; the truth shull prosper, 
but not by me.” GEORGE ELIOT. 


GAberefore foe must by all means keep distinct 
tho hinds of canse,—the one necessary, the other 
dibine, And lobile, ith wu biew to the true 
blessedness of life, it is the dibine that, us far xs 
our nature permits, foe should eberplohere seek ; 
pet, us a means to this ewd, fe must inbestigate 
the necessarp too, PLATO. 


Af foe knefo the reasons of the regard others 
benr us, foe should be astonished to see bolo little 
onr ston merit bus to do fith it. tase 


How many there ure bho consult us less to be 
‘benefited by our counsel thaw to be justified by 


our approbation ! ANON. 
ey. 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Bo pou not remember that ¥ am av frail human 
being ? und therefore J hube erred. 


TERENCE, 


Alo proposal is insignificant hem wddressed to 
the innocent: purity, like snofv, receibes nothing 
on its surface that does not lewbe either a trace or 
a stain. ANON. 


GHe can neber learn hut sort of persons 
people ure fohen they come to us; foe must go to 
them, if foe fould know fohat stuff they wre made 
of, and bo they manage or mismanage their 
surroundings, GOETHE. 


GHe hube often thought that the doctrine of the 
incarnation may babe been an indispensuble 
means of guarding the Church from the most 
pestilent delusion of philosophy,—tbat to be d1- 


bine, x mature must not feel. 
JAMES MARTINEAU. 


We estimate serbiced rendered us bp others, 
more by the good they do us thaw bp the trouble 
thep babe giben them. NON 


108 


Philosophy. 


Philosophy is w good horse in the stable, but 
wi arrant jude ow a journey. Aa neuTtre 


A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little 
minds, wored by little statesmen and philosophers 
and dibines, WHith consistency u great soul bus 
simply nothing to do. He may us fell concern 
himself with bis shadow on the foall. Spewk 
fobat pou think nof in hard fords, und to- 
morrot speak fohat to-morrof thinks in hard 
fords uguin, though it contradicts eberp thing 
pou suid to-day. EMERSON, 


A man can do fobat be onght to do; and Hohen 
he sups be cannot, be fill not. FICHTE. 


@ perceibe that the things fohich fe do are 
silly ; but fohut can one do? According to men’s 
habits and dispositions, so one must pield to them, 


TERENCE, 


As certain perfumes dribe ufouy noxious in- 
sects, so Does pure lobe embalm the heart, and 


dribe afoay its baser instincts, ANON. 
109 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


All things come from a umibersal, ruling 
potoer, either directly or by fay of consequence. 
: Do not therefore imagine that hurtful 
things are of unother hind from that tobich thou 


dost benerate. MARCUS AURELIUS. 


Men willingly beliebe Mohut they fish. 


CAESAR, 


Chere is progress fohereber there is a propen- 
sity wot only to thought but to after-thonght. 


NOVALIS. 


Che Olo Cestument literature fous unterior to 
eben the incipient approximation between the tooo 
directions of thought; und interpreters {bo in- 
fuse into it Platonic idens to take out its stains 
do but bleach utoup the rich colors of its natibe 
life, und destrop one of the most picturesque und 
instructibe contrasts in the history of the human 


THEE. JAMES MARTINEAU. 


Chat man, J think, bas bud a liberal educa- 
tion foho has been so trained in ponth that bis 
bobdp is the readp serbant of bis fill, 


HUXLEY, 
IIo ; 


Philosophy. 


He ho is soonest checkmated,—he foho, jud- 
ging by Mhut is seem merely, comes by the evrliest, 
most disustrons Ddefeat,—mup in reality habe fon 
the highest moral bictorp. SHIARP, 


Alot to beliebe in our talent, except to thank 
God for it, is to sunctify self-lobe. anon, 


Gherp ultimate fact is only the first of wu nef 
seties. Gberp general law only a particular fact 
of some more general law presently to disclose 


itself, EMERSON. 


Philosophy is properly u home-sichness, w 
longing to be eberpiohere at home. 


NOVALIS. 


% can’t abide to see men throf wbay their 
tools 7’ that fav, the minute the clock begins to 
strike, as if they took no pleasure 1 their fork, 
and fous afraid o’ doing a stroke too much. . . . 
The bery grindstone “ull go ow turning x bit 


iter pou loose it. GEORGE ELIOT. 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


All our strong feelings, like ghosts, hold shap 
only up to w certain hour; and if a man fould 
alwuns sup to himself, “Chis passion, this grief, 
this rapture, fill in three days certainly be gone 
from this soul,” then fould be become more and 
more tranquil and composed, RICHTER. 


All truly {ise ieerine hube been alrendy 
thought thousands of times; but to make them 
trulp ours foe must think them ober aguin bon- 
estly, till they take firm root im our personal 


experience, GOETHE. 


Mf there ure fords und forongs like knibes, 
those Deep-inflicted lacerutions neber heal,—cut- 
ting injuries and insults of serrated und poison- 
dripping edge,—so, too, there ure consolations of 
tone too fine for the ear not fondly bent foreber 


to retuin the echo. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 


Growth is better than permanence, und per- 
manent grofoth is better than all. 


GARFIELD. 
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Philosophy. 


dio fou bus heen found for making heroism 
ensp, eben for the scholar. Mubor, iron labor, 
is for him. Obhe world fous crented as un wndi- 
ence for him; the atoms of tobich it ts made are 


opportunities. EMERSON. 


Chings change less than our Wap of looking at 


them. ANON. 
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Sentiments 


SENTIMENTS. 


Golden opinions from all sorts of people.—MACBETH. 


S| HE sayings in this little volume are brought together 
by no closer resemblance than a general one, in that 
they are simple, brief, strong utterances of thought, 
opinion, or advice. Yet the suggestive form of the truths em- 
bodied distinguishes them from the questioning air of philos- 
ophy, and the commanding one of wisdom, while it marks 
them as at the same time both wise and philosophic. 


Sentiments. 


Chere is wo serbice like his that serbes because 


he lobes. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY’. 


Crue courage is like w kite, x contrary find 
raises it higher. ANON, 


An ugly criticism mukes more noise than w 
good book. ANON, 


Society is dibided into thro classes, the shearer 
und the shorn. Ge should alfoaps be with the 


former uguinst the latter. TALLEYRAND. 


Rothing is further than earth from beaben: 


nothing is nearer than heaben to earth. 
JULIUS HARE, 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


@Ahen foe hube not fhut fe lobe, foe must lobe 
fobut foe hube. BUSSEY-RABUTIN. 


Bretexts are not foanting When one Wishes » 


thing. GOLDONI. 


ile is long enough for him who knows bo 


to use it. VOLTAIRE. 


Puck is an ignis fatuus. Pou muy follof it 


to rnin, but neber to success. 
GARFIELD. 


Gherp man’s task is his life preserber. Che 
conbiction thut his fork is Dear to Good, and can- 
not be spared, defends him. EMERSON. 


Be tho libes toell is the best preacher. 


CERVANTES. 


Manp habe lived on a pedestal Hho will weber 
bube wu statue fohew dead, BERANGER. 


An impatient and untutored spirit regrets and 


bates toords of instruction, OVID. 
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Sentiments. 


Gile evsily forget our faults fohen they are 


knofu onlp to ourselbes, 
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 


Ghere is something stoeeter than receibing 
pruise ; the feeling of habing deserbed it. 


ANON. 


Sincerity und pure truth in eberyp age still puss 


current. MONTAIGNE. 


Che round is long from the intention to the 
completion. MOLIERE, 


Che World is a beautiful book; but of little 
use to bim fobho cannot rend it. GOLDONI. 


Che shullotoness of w foxter-nivie’s soul map 


babe w charm until she becomes didactic. 
GEORGE ELIOT. 


dt is more shameful to be distrustful of our 
friends than to be deceibed bp them. 
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 


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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Che lobe of the pust is often but the hatred of 
the present. DORION, 


He takes the grentest ornament from friendship 
fsbo takes modesty fronr it. CICERO, 


People like to gibe iv the browd daplight, but 
to receibe in the dark. ANON, 


Aeep close to the shore; let others launch into 
the muin. VIRGIL, 


Renunciation remains sorrow, though sorrow 
borne foillingly. GEORGE ELIOT, 


A veal friend is hivofow in adbersity. 
EMICUS. 


He who does w deed by the bund of unother, is 
the sume as if be did it himself. 


BONIFACE VIII. 


The moon looks on many night-flowers, the 


night-floter sees but one moon. 
SIR WILLIAM JONES. 
I22 


Sentiments. 


Fashion is not good sense wubsolute, but rela- 
tibe; not good sense pribate, but good sense en- 


tertaining compann. 
EMERSON. 


Che first thing w kindness deserbes is uccept- 


ante ; the next, transmission. 
GEORGE MACDONALD. 


4 bate niggurdly bands: gibe us roses in 
abundance. HORACE, 


Che heart bus no forinkles. 


MADAME DE SEVIGNE. 


Our likings ure regulated by circumstances. 


CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 


Old-fashioned poetry, but choicelpy good. 


IZAAK WALTON. 


Bis own is beuntiful to each. CICERO. 


Helo persons hube courage enough to appear 


us good as they really ate. 
AUGUSTUS HARE, 


123 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Books ure not ubsolutelp dead things, but doe 
contain a potencie of life in them to be us actibe 


as the sonle toas hose progenp thew ure. 
MILTON, 


Che durts of the gods are fixed im the minds 
of the ficken. CICERO. 


Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant 
foben they are incensed or crushed. BACON. 


A man’s of manner and character is What 
best becomes him. CICERO. 


Grow fe must, if foe ontgrof all that lobe 


ns, HOLMES. 


Some persons gibe one x notion of an abpss 


of shullotoness, AUGUSTUS HARE. 


Af pou ure not too large for the place, pou are 
too smull for it. GARFYELD. 


Good deeds ring clear through heaben like a 


bell, DICKENS. 
124 


Sentiments. 


GH pound of pluck is forth w tow of luck. 


GARFIELD. 


Ghat ought not to be done do not eben think 


of Aoing. EPICTETUS. 


Feeling ’s u sort o knofledge. 


GEORGE ELIOT. 


Co Adam, Paradise fas home; to the goor 


among his descendants, home is Paradise. 
AUGUSTUS HARE, 


Harer than the author Sho makes his books 
liked, is the one tho makes himself lobed in 


them. ANON, 


Be not simply good—be good for something. 


THOREAU. 


4 dare no more fret than ¥ dure curse and 


shyeur. JOHN WESLEY. 


Che life of the dend arises from being present 


to the mind of the libing. CICERO, 
125 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


So fohut signifies fishing und hoping for 
better times? @ile map make these times better, 
if foe hestix onrselbes. TT RANICLENT 


dw u mist. the heights caw for the most part 


see each other; but the balleps cunnot. 
AUGUSTUS HARE. 


A straight line is the shortest in morals us in 


mathematics. MARIA EDGEWORTH. 


at ’s the fill o Chem abobe us a many 
things should be dark to ns; but there ’s some 
things us J be neber felt 7 the dark about, and 
thep ‘re mostly fobut comes i’ the day's fork. 


GEORGE ELIOT. 


Chere is w great deal of unmapped countrp 
within us fobich fould bube to be take into 


uecount im an explanation of our gusts and 
storms, GEORGE ELIOT. 


Do not foeep, my dear Indy; pour tears are 
too precions to be shed for me; bottle them up, 


and may the cork weber be drafon. STERNE. 
126 


Sentiments. 


Che right ord is uloans x potver, and com- 
municates its definiteness to our action. 
GEORGE ELIOT. 


Che cundlestich set in u lof place has given 


u 


light as faithfully, tobere it fous needed, us that 


upon x bil. MARGARET FULLER. 


Che Pyramids themselbes, doting With age, 
Habe forgotten the names of their founders. 
THOMAS FULLER. 


Che supreme happiness of lite is the comnbic- 
tion that foe ure lobed; lobed for onrselbes—sap, 
rather, iv spite of onrselbes. VICTORUTIOGO! 


Riches habe wings; for J see those Who once 
bad then falling from thei high bopes. 


EURIPIDES. 


A sensible man does not brag, uboids mtro- 
Yucing the names of his creditable companions, 
omits himself us bubitually as another man 


obtrudes himself in the discourse, and is content 
127 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


ith putting bis fact or theme simply on its 
ground, EMERSON. 


A mind that is softened and humanized by 
friendship cannot bear frequent reproaches : 
either it must quite sink under the oppression, 
or ubute considerably of the bulue and esteem 
it had for bim foho bestofos them. 

ADDISON. 
dt is one of the precions mysteries of sorrof 
that it fnds solace in unselfish thought. 


GARFIELD. 


A speech, being u matter of adaptation, and 
babing to fiw opinions, should contain a little for 
the feo, and a great deal for the manp. 


AUGUSTUS HARE, 


Che death of a mother is the first sorroh wept 
foithout ber. ANON. 


Co Whomsoeber the holy dend are of no conse- 
quence, to him the liking are sotoo. pycurer. 


Che heart hus reusons that reason dors not 


knots, BOSSUET. 
128! 


Sentiments. 


Modesty und dew alike lobe the shade; both 


shine forth in daplight only to sour to heaben. 
ANON. 


Benebolence is inbincible, if it be not an 


affected smile, nor acting a part. 
MARCUS AURELIUS, 


Aite appears to me too short to be spent in 


nursing animosity or registering Wrongs. 
CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 


GHAhut is our life but an endless flight of Minged 
facts or ebents! aw splendid bariety these 
chunges come, all putting questions to the buman 


spirit, EMERSON, 


Anquisitibe people ure the funnels of conbersa- 
tion; thep do not take in ang thing for their ofr 


use, but merelp to pass it to another. 
STEELE, 


dHe must not take the faults of onr pouth 
into ont old uge; for old age brings foith it its 


ofr defects, GOETHE. 
9 129 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Che human soul is hospitable, and bill enter- 
tain conflicting sentiments and contradictory 
opinions with much impartiality. 

GEORGE ELIOT. 


Che cash foill long retain the odor of thut 
fohich has once been poured into it Hben new. 


HORACE, 


Most men emplop the first part of their life 


to make the other part miserable. 
LA BRUYERE. 


All mew are fools, and be Hho docs not fish 
to see them must remain in bis chamber and 


break bis looking-glass. 
MARQUIS DE LADE. 


Hy diligence und self-command, let a man put 
the brend be ents at bis of disposal, that he map 
not stand in bitter und false relations to other 
men; for the best good of foeulth is freedom. 


EMERSON. 


Stand firm us any toler, fobich neber shakes 
its top, Whateber Wind may blow. DANTE. 


130 


Sentiments. 


A philosopher is the last sort of animal J 
should choose to resemble. ¥ find it enough to 


libe, fithont spinning lies to account for life. 
GEORGE ELIOT 


Ge see men fall from high positions becunse 
of the berp faults through which then rose. 


LA BRUYERE. 


Che happiest Momen, like the happiest nations, 


bube no historp. GEORGE ELIOT. 


Che basis of good manners is self-reliance. 
Slecessity is the late of ull Moho ure not self- 
possessed. Chose toho ure not self-possessed ob- 
irude, and pain us. EMERSON. 


GHAboeber knows how to return u kindness be 


bas received must be a friend beyond all price. 
SOPHOCLES. 


Che moral sentiment of {hat is called the 
orld, is made np in great mensure of ill-hill 
and enbp. 


GOETHE. 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


A grateful mind is not only the greatest of 


bittues, but the purent of ull the other birtues. 
CICERO. 


Het us beliebe neither half the good people say 
of ns nor bulf the ebil they sap of others. 


ANON. 


Che bine bears three clusters; the first of 
pleasure; the second of drunkenness: the third 


of insult. : 
EPICTETUS, 


dt is ulong the paths of birtue that fe sour up- 
foard to the blessed state of those pure spirits 
foho dwell in paradise. 


SALOMON GESSNER, 


When what is good comes of age and is likely 
to libe, there is reuson for reyorcing. 
GEORGE ELIOT. 


He tho imitates fohut is ebil altoays goes be- 
youd the example that is set; ov the contrarp he 
ho imitates fobat is good ulfaps falls short. 


GUICCIARDINI. 
132 


Sentiments. 


There isu certain noble pride through which 
merits shine brighter than through modesty. 


RICHTER 


Af the course of human ebents be considered, it 
foill be seew that many things arise against fohich 


Heuben does not allow us to guard. 
MACHIAVELLI. 


Gberp thing that one says too much is insipid 


und tedious. BOILEAU. 


'C is w greut point in a gallery, bow pou bung 
pictures; and not less in society, hol pow seat 
pour party. Wher a man meets bis accurate 


mute, society begins, und life is delicions. 
EMERSON, 


A man’s accusations of himself are ulboaps 
beliebed, bis paises neber. MONT ATER 


Aibers ure roads fohich mobe, and carry us 
fobithersocber toe wish to go. ery 


GHe are ull strong enough to endure the mis- 


fortunes of others. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
133 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


All-gotten guins ure neber forth the price, amd 
a good conscience neber costs fohat it is forth. 
ANON. 


Chese roses under my indo make wo refer- 
ence to former roses or to better ones; thep are 
for fohat then ure; they exist with God to-day, 


EMERSON. 


Che bery truth bath « color from the dispost- 
tion of the utterer, ey a. 


ds life so Dear, or pence so shoect us to be pur- 
chased ut the price of chains und slaberp? Sor- 
bid it, Almighty Goo! J kno not hat course 
others muy take; but as for me, gibe me liberty 


or gibe me death. PATRICK HENRY. 


At is not ft that ¥ should gibe myself pain; 
for J habe neber intentionally giben pain eben to 


another. MARCUS AURELIUS. 


4 am conbinced that if the birtuost could once 
find out w foorld in the moon, With a passage to 
it, our fomen fwould fear nothing but tbat 
directly came from thence. aay 

134 


Sentiments. 


Manners must adorn knofoledge and smooth 
its foay through the world. CHESTERFIELD. 


Che theatre hus oftew been ut bariance With the 
pulpit; they ought not, J think, to quarrel. 
How much is it to be wished that in both, the 
celebrution of nature and of God fere intrusted 
fo none but men of noble minds. GOETHE. 


Che Ia of the table is Beantp—a respect to 
the common soul of all the guests. Gbhery thing 
is unseasonable which is pribate to tho or three 
or any portion of the company. EMERSON. 


dAben the sting of slander stings thee, let this 
be thy comfort: Chey ure not the worst fruits on 
fhich the Husps alight. BURGER. 


DHowt be wu cynic and disconsolate preacher. 
Don't bebail and bemoan. Omit the negatibe 
propositions. Nerve us With incessant affrma- 
tibes. Won't foaste pourself im rejection, nor 
bark uguinst the bad, but chant the beauty of the 


good. EMERSON. 


4 cannot abide to see men throw abap their 
135 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


tools the minute the clock begins to strike, us if 
they took no pleasure in their fork, und boas 
afraid o° doing aw stroke too much. The berp 
grinstone ‘Il go on turning a bit ufter pow loose 


it. GEORGE ELIOT. 


Pathos wv situations that ure homely, or at all 
connected bith domestic uflections, naturally mobes 
in Saxon fords. . . . Because the Saxon 
is the original element of our language it com- 
prebends all the ideas tobich ure natural to the 
heart of man, and to the elementarp situations of 


Irfe, TRENCH. 


By friendship, J suppose pou mean the greatest 
lobe, the greutest usefulness, and the most open 
communications, and the most exemplary faithful- 
ness, und the seberest truth, und the heartiest 
counsel, und the greatest union of minds, of 


hich brabe men and bomen are capable. 
JEREMY TAYLOR. 


Amagined ills puinted by our fears, ure alboays 


greater than the true. METASTASIO. 
136 


Sentiments. 


The court is like a palace built of marble; g 
mean that it is made up of berp bard and berp 
polished people. LA BRUYERE. 


Plans tohich ure boise and prudent in them- 
selbes, are rendered bain foben the execution of 


them is carried on negligently and bith impru- 
dence, GUICCIARDINI. 


Aleber hold any one by the buttow or the band 
iw order to be heard out; for, if people are un- 
foilling to bear’ pou it is better to bold pour 


tongue thaw them. CHESTERFIELD. 


Gil habits soil w full oress more than mud; 
Hood manners, bp their deeds, ensily set off a 
lofolp gurb, PLAUTUS. 


dt ig w sad Weakness, in us, after all, that the 
thought of a man’s death ballows bim ane to 
us; us if lite foere not sucred too ;—uas if it bere 
comparatibely w light thing to fail in lobe and 
reberence to the brother Who bas to climb the 
fohole toilsome steey foith us, and all our tears 
and tenderness foere dune to the one Mobo is spared 


that bard journep. GEORGE ELIOT. 
137 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Mt ig an odd debice, fohen a fellow commits x 
crime, to send him to the untipodes for it. That 
a rogue, by picking a pocket, should earn the cir- 
cuit of bulf the globe, seems reallp meant us a 
parody on the conceptions of those Moho bolo that 
the happiness of uw future life fill consist mainly 
in going the round of all the countries thep babe 
not bisited in the present. AUGUSTUS HARE. 


GAbat is it fe look for in the landseupe, in 
sunsets and sunrises, in the sea and the frma- 
ment? début but a compensation for the cramp 
and pettiness of human performance. 

EMERSON. 

As for me J am persuaded that if in mp pouth 
J bad been tanght all the truths of which J bube 
since sought the demonstrations, J should neber, 
perhaps, babe kof anp others, or ut lenst 
neber hube acquired the habit and facility which J 
think J possess of finding nebo ones. 

DESCARTES. 

Chere is as much difference between good poetrp 
and fine berses, a8 betoocen the smell of a flofer- 
garden and x perfumer’s shop. 


AUGUSTUS HARE. 
138 


Sentiments. 


Hife is made up, not of great sucribees or 
Duties, but of little things, im fbich smiles and 
kindnesses and sniall obligutions, giben habitually, 
are fohut Win and preserbe the heart, and secure 


comfort. SIR HUMPHREY DAVY. 


Co be right im great memorable moments, is 
perhaps the thing fe meed most desire for our- 


selbes. GEORGE ELIOT. 


GHbere und hho J shull be, J shull be, that J 
am nob, a potoer in the systenr of all powers, w 
being iw the interminable harmony of wu orld of 


Gov. HERDER. 


How often fhile Homen and girls sit farm at 
stort firesides, their hearts and imaginations are 
doomed to diborce from the comfort surrounding 
their persons, forced ont bp night to funder 
through dark fans, to dare stress of hoeather, 
fo contend With the snof-blast, to fait at lonely 
gates und stiles in fildest storms, fontching and 
listening to see and hear the father, the son, 


the husband coming home. 
CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 


Our opinion of ourseloes, like our shadowy, 


makes us either too big or too little. ANON, 
139 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Man is eber clogged With his mortality, and it 
fas my mortal nature Mobich not pattered and 


plained. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 


Che prevarication and fobite lies hich a mind 
that heeps itself ambitionsly pure is us uneasy 
under as a great artist under the false touches 
that no epe detects but bis ofr, ure form as 
lightly as mere trimmings foben once the actions 
habe become w lie. GEORGE ELIOT. 


alo mockery in this forld eber sounds to me 
so holloty us that of being told to cultibate bappi- 
ness. . . . Mappiness is not u potato to 
be planted iv mould and tilled fith manure. 
Happiness isa glory shining far doh upon us 


out of heaben. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 


Au merit ceuses the moment fe perfornr an 
uct for the sake of the consequences. Crulp in 
this respect fe babe our reard. HUMBOLDT. 


Chere is nothing fhich continues longer than a 
moderate fortune; nothing of Mbich one sees the 
end sooner thun uw large fortune. 


LA BRUYERE, 
140 


Sentiments. 


Absence lessens fewk und increases biolent 
passions, as find extinguishes tapers and lights 


up w fre. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 


Halt the sorrows of Momen fould be nberted 
if they could repress the speech they kuow to be 
useless—nap, the speech they babe resolbed not to 


utter. GEORGE ELIOT. 


Moderate speed is u sure help to all proceed- 
ings; fobere those things tobich are prosecuted 
fith biolence of endenbor or desire, either succeed 


not, or continue not. JOSEPH HALL. 


Modesty is to merit What shade is to figures 
ina picture, gibing it strength and relief. 


LA BRUYERE. 


Ghuteber fe conceive foell toe express clearly, 
and fords fot fith erase. BOILEAU. 


Gsuallp, the more fortune a maw acquires, the 
less Does he care to please others; im return, thep 
become more anxious to please him; so thut the 
sum of cibilities betteen them remains the same, 
but differently dibided. ANON. 

141 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Cime flies, und draws us With it. Che mo- 
ment in fohich J um speaking is alreadp far from 


NTE, BOILEAU. 


Be only is fit to be chosen for w friend, oho 
can do those offices for tohich friendship is excel- 


lent. JEREMY TAYLOR. 


Friendship closes its epes rather than see the 
moon eclipsed; fobile mulice denies that it is eber 


at the full. AUGUSTUS HARE. 


Childhood hus no forebodings; but thew it is 


soothed bp no memories of ontlibed sorroh. 
GEORGE ELIOT. 


8 often shed tenrs in the motley Strand, for 
feeling of jop ut so much life. LAMB. 


GHherefore, Publins, thou und all the good 
must keep the soul in the bodp, nor must men 
lenbe this life fithout the permission of the Being 


bp fohon it has been giben. CICERO, 
142 


Sentiments. 


Het ns choose the best rowd to lewd to the 
right; but to escupe the ebil, let us take the 
shortest cut. ANON. 


Che rose docs not bloom without thorns. 
Grne; but would that the thorns did not outlibe 


the rose! RICHTER. 


Bonor is like un island, rugged and without # 
landing place; fe caw neber more re-enter Mhen 
foe ure once ontside of it. BOILEAU. 


ds not anger a cursed bice? Bes, Gertes. 
Alas, it taketh aap from maw bis fit and rev- 
gon, und all bis debonaire life spiritual, that 
should keep bis soul. CHAUCER. 


4 ’m no fool myself ; J 'm forced to fink a good 
deul, for fear of seeing too much, for a neigh- 
borly man must let himself he cheated w little. 


GEORGE ELIOT. 


aot only the incoming and outgoing of life 
are hidden fith uw manifold beil, but eben the 


short path itself; us around Gguptian temples, 
143 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


so aronnd the greatest of ull temples, sphinees lie; 
and, rebersing the case us it fous With the sphine, 
be only solbes the riddle Soho dies. 
RICHTER. 
So may Heaben’s grace clear away the foam 
from thy conscience, that the riber of thy thoughts 


map roll limpid thenceforth. 
DANTE. 


Chere is no greater grief thaw iw miserp to 
turn our thoughts back to happier times. 


DANTE, 


Aw eberlasting How reigns in Hature, which 
bangs the sume roses ow our bushes tobhich 
charmed the Roman and the Chaldean iv their 
banging gardens. EMERSON. 


Ob, the found of conscience is no scar, and 
Time cools it not With his Ming, but merely keeps 


it open foith bis septhe. 
RICHTER. 


Thy true speech fill sow in my heart meek 
humility, and allay fohat tumors rankle there. 
DANTE. 
144 


Sentiments. 


4 consider that the spirit of politeness 1s v cer- 
tin desire to bring it about, that by our words 
and manners others man be pleased with us and 
foith themselbes. MONTESQUIEU. 


Hotweber foell disposed be may be to forgive 
the hurm suid of us, it is better neber to babe 
knoton it than to bube it to forget. ANON, 


Che schoolmaster is ubrowd, and J trust to him, 
armed foith his primer, uguinst the soldier iv full 


military array, LORD BROUGHAM. 


Calking is like plaping the harp. There is as 
much in laping the band ow the strings to stop 
their bibrations as in thanging them to bring out 


the music. HOLMES. 


Any man may occasionnlly be mistaken as to 
the means most conducibe to the end fohich be bas 
iv biel, but if the end be just and pruiseforthy, 
it is by it that be Will be ultimately judged. 


CANNING. 


Ab, 9 often think it’s foi th’ old folks us it 
is foi’ the bubbies ; they ’re sutished foi’ looking, 


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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


no mutter fohut they ’re looking ut. at's Gov 
A’mighty’s fap o” quietening “em, J reckon, 
afore they go to sleep. 


GEORGE ELIOT. 


Ge ought to bear ut least one little song ebery 
Day, read u good poem, see a first-rate panting, 


and, if possible, speak w febo sensible Mords. 
GOETHE, 


Chep oho bube the Mit thut is in you, often 
transfer to themselbes the glory got by others’ 
care and toil, TERENCE. 


Ge lobe Addison for his hunities us much us 
for bis birtues. Ghat is ridiculons is delightful 
in him; foe are so fond of him becunse foe langh 


at him so, THACKERAY. 


Che man that neither blushes nor fears, hus 


the imitintibe to eberpy hind of shumelessness. 
YOUNG. 


Persons fho can only be graceful und orna- 
mental—tobo gibe the forld nothing but flowers 
—should die poung, und neber be seen ith grap 


hairs and forinkles, . . . Hot that beauty is 
146 


Sentiments. 


not Worthy of immortality. Hothing else, indeed, 
is foorthy of it; und thence, perbups, the sense of 
impropriety fohew foe see it triumphed ober by 


time. HAWTHORNE. 


J foeigh the man, not his title; “tis not the 
king's stamp can make the metal better. 
WYCHERLEY. 


Seriously speaking, we must hold it w remark- 
able thing that ebery Gnglishman should be 
“gentleman ’’; that in so democratic w countrp 
our common title of hononr—tobhich all men as- 
sert for themselbes—should be one fohich profess- 
edly depends on station, ow accidents, rather than 
on qualities! or ut best, us Coleridge interprets 
it, “ow w certain indifference to money mutters” ; 
fohich certain indifference aguin must be foise or 
mad, pou foould think, exactly as one possesses 
much monep or possesses little! Gile suppose it 
must be the commercial genius of the nation, 
counteracting und suppressing its political genius ; 
for the Americuns are suid to be still more nota- 
ble in this respect than fe. Hot, what a hol- 


low, indy bacuity of internal character this in- 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Dicates; hot, in place of w rightly-ordered heart, 
foe stribe only to exhibit a full purse; and all 
pushing, rushing, elbowing ow tofard u false 
aim, the courtier’s hibes are more und more 
galled by the toe of the peasant: and ow eberpy 
side, instead of faith, hope, und charity, We habe 


Needless, greediness, und bain glorp. 
CARLYLE. 


Besides the general infusion of fit to heighten 
cibility, the direct splendor of intellectual potver 
is eber fuelcome in fine society us the costliest ad- 
dition to its rule und its credit. EMERSON. 


4% gathered, from some conversation that g 
heard, that u sow of Adum is to be buried this 
afternoon from the meeting-house; but the name 
escaped me, Gt is no great mutter, so it be 
foritten in the Book of Hite. HAWTHORNE. 


Chere exists in Grgland w gentlemanly charac- 
ter, a gentlemantyp feeling, bery different ebew from 
that fobich is the most like it—the character of a 
fell-borw Spaniard, and unevampled in the rest 


of Gurope. COLERIDGE. 
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Sentiments. 


4 knofe no such sure test of a gentleman as 
this, that be neber corrects a solecism in conbersi- 
tion, or seems to kno that w solecisny bus been 


conunitted. BALZAC. 


Che man who melts with social sympathy, 
though not wllied, is of more forth than x thou- 


sand kinsmen, EURIPIDES. 


Che spirit of chibalry left behind it w more 
buluuble successor. Che character of hmight 


gradually subsided in that of gentleman. 
HALLAM, 


de join ourseloes to no party that dors not 
curry the flag and keep step to the music of the 


Wnrion. RUFUS CHOATE. 


Gentleman is a bery expressibe ford in our 
language—a ford denoting an assemblage of 
manp real birtues, and av union of manners at 


mnce pleasing and commanding respect, 
CHARLES BUTLER. 


dt is the glory of w foman that she fas sent 
into the foorld to libe for others, rather thuw for 


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herself ; und therefore J shull sup, let her smallest 


rights be respected, her smallest forongs redressed. 
KINGSLEY. 


. J bate boldness—thut boldness fohich is of the 
brassy brow und insensate nerbes; but J lobe 
the couruge of the strong heart, the ferbor of the 


Henevous blood. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 


Reserbe is the freedom and abandonment of 
lobers; At is the reserbe of fhat is hostile or 
indifferent iv their nutures, to give place to ohat 
is kindred and hurmonious. & true friendship 
is as boise ns it is tender. THOREAU. 


Angenions philosophers tell pou, perbaps, that 
the grent fork of the stewm-engine is to create 
leisure for mankind. Do not beliche them: it 
only creates w Sacuum for eager thought to rush 


in, Ghen Adleness is eager now. 
GEORGE ELIOT. 


4 maintain that those Moho hube died honorably, 
are ulibe, ruther thaw that those libe toho lewd dis- 
honored libes. EURIPIDES, 


Sentiments. 


Perbups if fe could penetrate Nuture’s secrets 
fre should find that fohat foe call weeds are more 
essentinl to the foell-being of the forld than the 
most precions grain or fruit, HAWTHORNE, 


Garth shotws no fairer sight than the old man 
whose forn-ont brat and nerbes make it pain- 
ful, und perbups impossible, to produce fresh 
thought himself, but fobo can pet elcome smil- 
ingly the fresh thoughts of others; Who keeps 
unoearied bis faith in God's gobernment of the 
universe, iv God's continual education of the 
human race, KINGSLEY. 


4 cannot help expressing to pou bow happy 
beyond description A feel, ow reflecting that mp 
father fas uble to exert, in their full bigor, the 
sentiments und eloquence that alfaps distin- 
guished him. . . . Me spoke in a glow of 
eloquence, und foith w beauty of expression, ani- 
mated und striking bepond description, 


From a letter written by William Pitt tohis mother, con- 
cerning his father’s speech in favor of cessation of hostili- 
ties with America. 


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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Chere is no rewl life but cheerful lite; there- 
fore buletudinarians should be sworn, before they 
enter into company, not to say u bord of them- 
selbes till the meeting breaks up. ADDISON. 


Gberp person's feelings hube a front-door und 
x side-door by fohich they may be entered. The 
front-door is on the street. Some keep it ulups 
open; some keep it latched; some locked; some 
bolted,— ith u chain that fill let pou peep in, 
but not get iv; und some nail it up, so that noth- 
ing caw puss its threshold. Chis front-door leads 
into x pussuge fobich opens into an ante-room, 
and this into the interior apartments. Che side- 
door opens ut once into the sucred chambers. 


HOLMES. 


an the pathwoup of life only great obstucles ure 
seen, und pet it is the little hindrance that ober- 
comes us. A fall map stop us perhaps, but a 
little stone trips us up. ANON, 


One morning follows another; then, Mobile fe 
are heedless of our coming doom, suddenly the 


bath owe fill step in. AMMIANUS. 
152 


Sentiments. 


dlo perpetual motion, God be praised! bus pet 
been discovered for free gobernments, For the 
impulse fobich keeps them going, they ure indebted 


mainly to subordinate reforms. 
AUGUSTUS HARE, 


Che fhole countenunce is a certain silent lan- 
guage of the mind. CICERO, 


An passing ulong the path of life, unless foe 
habe the light of Heaben shed upon us ebery bold 
spirit is seized foith dismap; the heart fails and 


the feet fulter. METASTASIO. 


Pou neber stained pour face {ith falnut-juice 
or rouge; pon neber delighted iw dresses indeli- 
cately lof ; pour single ornament fous u lobeliness 
fohich no uge could destroy; pour special glory 


fous w conspicuous chastity. * SENECA, 


In a letter to his mother. 


Chose fho till w spot of earth scarcely larger 
thaw is lounted for w grave, hube deserbed that the 


sun should shine upon its sod fill biolets ansher. 


MARGARET FULLER. 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Time, ith its mighty strides, fill soow reuch 
a future generation, and leabe the present in 


Death und in forgetfulness behind it. 
CHALMERS, 


Slander is a poison fohich extinguishes charity, 
both in the slanderer and inv the person who 
listens to it; so that w single calumny may probe 
fatul to un infinite mnmber of souls, since it hills 
not only those who circulate it, but also all those 


foho do wot reject it. SAINT BERARD, 


dt is herp plensunt to see some men turn round; 
pleasant as x sudden tush of farm air in fointer, 


ox a flash of firelight in the chill dusk. 
GEORGE ELIOT, 


fohich the routine of life is foashed, und its de- 
tnils udorned. Of they ure superficial, so are 
the Dedrops fohich gibe such uw depth to the 
morning mendolos, EMERSON. 


Manners form at lust wa rich barnish, with 


Mp soul tasted that heabenly food which gibes 


nebo appetite bobile it sutisfies, DANTE. 
154 


Sentiments. 


Cruth, J cried, though the heabens crush me 
for following ber; no falsehood, though a whole 


celestial Iubberland fwere the price of apostasy. 
CARLYLE. 


Co become w good man is truly dittenlt, square 
us to bis bunds and feet, fashioned fithout 


fault. HORACE. 


Piety and religion chiefly flourish in our souls 


fohen foe ure occupied in dibine serbices. 
PYTHAGORAS. 


Books ure x guide in pouth and an entertain- 
ment for age. Chew help us to forget the cross- 
ness of men and things, compose our cares, und 
lup our disappointments asleep. GAben foe are 
foeary of the libing, fe may repair to the dead, 
foho babe nothing of peebishness, pride, or design 
in their conbersution. JEREMY TAYLOR. 


There isu gentle but perfectly irresistible co- 
ertiow in u bubit of rending, foell directed, ober 
the fohole tenor of a man’s character and conduct, 
fohich is not the less effectual because it forks in- 

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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


sensibly, und because it is really the last thing be 


dreams of, SIR JOHN HERSCHEL. 


dt is wu most unjust ambition to desire to en- 
gross the mercies of the Almighty, nor to be con- 
fent fith the goods of mind bithout a possession 


of those of body or fortune. 
SIR THOMAS BROWNE. 


dleber does vw man portray his of churacter 
more bibidly than in bis manner of portraying 
another. : 
RICHTER. 

GAhorber thou art that bust become rich from 
great poberty, use thy good fortune bith modera- 


tion, 
AUSONIUS. 


dt foent deep into bis heurt, like the melody of 


x song that sounds up from childhood. 
RICHTER. 


But fraud, fohich is un ill peculiarly man’s 
sion, displeases God most; und therefore the 
fraudulent fall lofer, and groan Sith deeper un- 


guish. DANTE. 
156 


Sentiments. 


Chose that dure lose a day, ure dangerously 
prodigul; those that dure mis-spend it, desperate. 


JOSEPH HALL. 


Books ure the lequeies that genins leabes to 
mankind, to be delivered doton from generation to 
generation, us presents to the posterity of those 
who are pet unborn. ADDISON. 


Gbery thing that thou reprobest in another, 
thou must ubobe ull take care that thow art not 
thuself guilty of. CICERO. . 


Sor J am not at all uneasy that J came into, 
and babe so far passed mp course in this world; 
because J habe so lived in it, that J habe reason 
to beliche J hube beew of some use to it; and 
fohew the close comes, J shull quit life us J would 
an inn, and not as a real home, CICERO. 


Hame is not fon on dofony plumes nor under 
canopies ; the man foho consumes bis daps foith- 
ont obtaining it, leabes such mark of bimeelf 


on earth as smoke on utr, or foam on boater. 


DANTE. 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


A relationship im pursuits and bubits is al- 
most us impottunt as the relationship of mame 
and family. CICERO, 


Che less power x man hus, the more be likes 


to wse it. ANON. 


Pe immortal govs, tohere in the world ure foe? 


CICERO. 


Plato is my friend, Socrutes is mp friend ; 
but Cruth is a friend that J balue abobe both. 


ARISTOTLE. 


Hature is sunatibe, refining, elebating. How 
cunningly she hides eberp forinkle of her incon- 
ceibuble untiquity under roses, und Siolets, and 
morning deb. EMERSON. 


GHish to fiw the suffrages of pour ofw inboard 
upprobal, Wish to appeur beautiful to God. 


EPICTETUS, 


for mp part, Fam delighted to find a feb 
flofers on the mile-stones us J puss along. Ho 
matter bof simple they are: wu buttercup is as 
“good us au japonica; somebody placed it there 
158 


Sentiments. 


foho remembered thut J fous going by, und thut is 


sufficient. 
—Lydia Maria Child on birthday mementoes, 


As characters traced on fobite paper with spm- 
pathetic ink caw only be made legible by fire, so 
out heart's characters cannot be read unless 
farmed by friendship. ANON, 


g know not Why foe should delay our tokens of 
respect to those foo deserbe them, until the heart 
that our sympathy could babe gladdened, bas 
tensed to beat. As men cannot rend the epitaphs 
inscribed upow the marble that cobers them, so 
the tombs that foe erect to birtue often only probe 
our repentance that foe neglected them Mohen with 


us. HORACE, 


Retribution map come from any boice; the 
hardest, cruclest, most embruted urchin at the 
street corner can inflict it; surely help and pity 
re rarer things—more needful for the righteous 


to bestofy. GEORGE ELIOT. 


@ announce to ull men that noble children are 


sprung from noble sires, TERENCE, 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Che true bards hube beew noted for their frm 
and cheerful temper. omer lies im sunshine ; 
Chaucer is glad and erect. Not less sobereign 
and cheerful,—mauch more sobereign and cheerful, 
is the tone of Shakespeare. EMERSON. 


an a gentleman appear all the great and solid 
pertections of lite, ith a beautiful gloss and bar- 
nish; ebery thing thut he says or does is uccom- 
panied foith a» manner, or rather x charm, that 
druws the good-will of ebery beholder. 


STEELE. 


The success of a good book may be slolv, but 
it fill come; that of a bad one map be shift, 


but it soon passes afap. ANON. 


Cell me fohat pou find better or more honora- 
ble than age. Js not fisdom entailed upon tt? 
Cake the pre-eminence of it in eberp thing ; in an 


old friend, iw old fine, in an old pedigree. 
SCOTT. 


dit and Misdom ure born with a man. 
JOHN SELDEN. 
160 


Sentiments. 


Che polite of eberp country seem to hube but 
one character. at is among the bulgur that 
foe find those distinctions fhich characterize x 


people. GOLDSMITH. 


dust us music must habe its diminished fifths, 
its flat sebenths, its flourishes, us fell as its per- 
fect chords und simple melodies, so conversation 
must habe its purtial truths, its embellished 
iruths, its exaggerated truths. HOLMES. 


Che dutifulness of children is the foundation 
of ull birtues. CICERO. 


dHe caw hardly learw humility and tenderness 


enough except bp suffering. GEORGE ELIOT. 


Religious principles inculeated in a child’s heart 
are like golden nails fohich time drives in faster, 
mod no philosophical claw cor completely drat 


out, ANON. 


GAbhat good does the purple do on the garment ? 
GAhp, it is splendid in itself, and splendid also in 


the example Which it affords, EPICTETUS, 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Che remembrance of w belobed mother becomes 
ashadot to all our actions; it precedes or fol- 
_ lotos them. ANON. 


Qnless thought perpetually renews its pouth, 
and lifts a seeking epe afresh to the libing light, 
Decrepitude und fovste befall tohateber it has 


achieben. JAMES MARTINEAU. 


Gentle sleep despises not the humble cottages of 
rustics, nor the shaded banks, nor bualleps fhose 
foliage toubes With the Western fino. 


HORACE, 


Thought is the property of him who can en- 
iertain it, und of him Who can adequately place it. 
EMERSON. 


St is u brief period of life thut is granted ns 
bp nature, but the memorp of a Well-spent life 
neber dies. CICERO. 


Some people currp their hearts im their heads ; 
bery manp cartp their beads in their hearts. Che 
difficulty is to keep them apart, and pet both ac- 


tibelp forking together. MARCUS HARE. 
162 


Sentiments. 


Hobe is a secondary passion in those Who love 
most, x primary in those Moho lobe least. Be 
foho is inspired by it iv w great degree is inspired 
hp honor in # greuter. LANDOR. 


dt is one of mp constant regrets, in this gene- 
ration, that men to fohom the gods bube giben a 
genius fill insist, im such an earnest time us ours 
bas grofon, in bringing out their dibine gift in the 
shape of berse, Which nof no man reads entirely 
im enrnest. CARLYLE. 


Gheneber wn accumulation of small defences 
is found, fobether surrounding the prude’s birtue 
ox the man of the world’s respectability, there, be 


sure, it 18 needed. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 


Che heart's instinctive lopalip to the poet is 
proof of its consciousness that be is the burmo- 


nizer, strengthener, und consoler. 
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. 


Aloups there is seed being sofon silently and 
unseen, und eberpoobere there come up sleet 


flowers fithout our foresight or lnbor. We reap 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


fohat foe solv, but Nature has lobe ober und abobe 
that justice, und gibes us shadot and blossom 


and fruit that spring from no planting of ours. 
GEORGE ELIOT. 


Che upparent und the real progress of human 
uffairs are both fell illustrated in » fouterfall: 
fohere the sume noisp, bubbling eddies continue 
for months und pears, though the foater which 


froths in them changes eberp moment. 
AUGUSTUS HARE, 


A beneficent person is like a fountain foxtering 
the earth and spreading fertility ; it is therefore 
more Delightful and more bonoruble to gibe than 


to receibe. EPICURUS, 


Heber hunt trouble. Bolweber dead a shot 
one may be, the gun he carries ow such expeditions 


is sure to kick or go off hulf-cocked. 
ARTEMUS WARD. 


dust us those Mho habe beard au symphony 
carrp in their ears the tune and stoeetness of the 


song oobich entangles their thoughts, and does not 
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Sentiments. 


suffer them to gibe their fohole energy to serious 
matters; so the combersution of flutterers and of 
those foo praise ebil things, lingers longer in the 
mind than the time of bearing it. SENECA. 


The port's berse slides into the current of our 
blood, We read it When young, foe remember it 


fohen old. SAMUEL SMILES. 


Af J foere not the independent gentleman that 9 
am, tather thaw ¥ would be w retainer of the 
great, a led captain, or poor relation, J would 
choose, ont of the delicacy and true greatness of 
mp mind, to be w beggar. LAMB. 


Children need some childish talk, some childish 
play, some childish books. But they also need, 
und need more, difftculties to obercome, und x 
sense of the bust mysteries fobich the progress of 


their intelligence shull nid them to unrabel. 
MARGARET FULLER. 


Che heart weeds not for its henber much space, 
nor mang stars therein, if only the star of lobe 


bus risen. RICHTER. 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


A helping ford im trouble is often like u 
stoitch on a railroad track,—but one inch bethocen 


forech und smooth-rolling prosperity. 
BEECHER. 


Hessons to be learned from the humility and 
cheerfulness of the gruss. ats humility, in that 
it seems created only for lobest serbice,—ap- 
pointed to be trodden upon. dts cheerfulness, in 
that it seems to exult under all kinds of biolence 
and suffering. Pou roll it, and it is stronger the 
next dap; pou mofo it, and it multiplies its shoots 
as if it fere grateful; pou tread upon it, and it 
only sends up richer perfume. RUSKIN. 


Adversity reminds men of religion. ivy. 


Girls are protected us if they were something 
herp frail or silly indeed, fobile bops are turned 
loose on the World us if they, of all beings in ex- 
istence, foere the foisest und least linble to be led 


ustrap. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 


God is there the sun glows, God is fobere the 
biolet blooms, is Hhere pow bird flaps its tings, 
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Sentiments. 


is fohere this form is mobing. Though no 
friend, no mun, be foith thee, fear nothing! Thy 
God is here. DINTER. 


Feeling Mithout judgment is u Mushy dranght 
indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is 
too bitter and bushy a morsel for buman deglu- 


tition. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 


Co find a noble human soul is gain; it is 
nobler to keep it; and the noblest and most difh- 
cult is to sube that fohich is already lost. 


HERDER. 


Heabes ure light, und useless, and idle, and 
foubering, und changeable; they eben dance: pet 
God has made them part of the owk. dn so 
Doing He hus giben us uv lesson not to deny the 
stout-heartedness Within, becunse foe see the light- 
somencss foithout. AUGUSTUS HARE, 


The power which thinks and Morks within us 
is, according to its nature, a pober us neber- 
dying us that Hhich holds together suns und stars. 


dis nature is eternal as the dibine mind, 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


md the supports of my being (not of mp cor- 
poreal form) are us firm us the pillars of the 


mnuiberse. HERDER. 


How different is a foulk with a religions man 
from one with wu bulgur, worldly soul! The 
earth appeared to him holy, just fallen from the 
hands of the Greator; it fxs to him as if be 
foere foulking in w planet banging ober ns and 
tlothed with flowers. RICHTER, 


Gberp day is a gift J receibe from Heaben ; 
let me enjoy to-day that Mobhich it bestofes on me. 
dt belongs not more to the poung than to me, 


and to-morrof belongs to no one. 
FRANCOIS DE MAUCROIX. 


Che tale of Hibine Pity fous neber yet beliebed 
from lips that Were not felt to be mobed by human 


pity. GEORGE ELIOT. 


Pour fame is us the grass, Whose hue comes 
and gors, und His might withers it, by tohose 
potoer it sprang from the lap of earth. 


DANTE, 
168 


Sentiments. 


4 ubooke this morning fith debout thanks- 
gibing for my friends, the old and the nef. Shall 
@ not call God the Beautiful, Hho daily shotocth 
himself so to me in bis gifts ? EMERSON. 


Of lu there caw be no less achnofoledged 
thun that ber seat is the bosom of God, her boice 
the barmonp of the forld; all things in heaben 
and earth do her homage, the berp least us feeling 
her care, und the greatest as wot exempted from 


ber potver. ; THOMAS HOOKER. . 


Hite is u series of surprises, und would not be 
forth taking or keeping, if it foere not. God 
delights to isolate us ebery dup, und hide from us 
the pust and the future. EMERSON. 


As u state ought to ucknobledge God in its 
public capacity, so ought each indibidual family. 
VIRGIL. 


¥ am glad to think that God sees through mp 
heart, and, if ang angel bus potoer to penetrate 
into it, he is foelcome to know ebery thing that is 


there, Bes, und so map any mortal obo is capa- 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


ble of full sympathy, und therefore orthy to 
come into mp depths. But he must find his of 
fouy there. ¥ can neither guide nor enlighten 


him. HAWTHORNE, 


He is not trabelling along that darksome path 
to the bourne from which, they sap, no one eber 


returns. CATULLUS. 


Drawing near her death, she sent most pions 
thoughts us harbingers to heaben; and her soul 
sate x glimpse of happiness through the chinks 
of ber sickness-brokew body. 

THOMAS FULLER. 


dt seems to me it’s the same With lobe and hap- 
piness us foith sorrof—the more foe knol of it 
the better foe caw feel that other people's libes 
are or might be, and so foe shall only be more 
tender to em, and foishful to bely ’em. 


GEORGE ELIOT. 


© Death, thou dost not trouble mp designs, 
thou uccomplishest them. Muste then, O fabor- 


able Death! BOSSUET. 
170 


Sentiments. 


Chou art not born to misery; the Almighty 
neber culled ung of bis creatures into existence to 
render them unhappy; vet man map be foretched 


from his ofvw follies und bices, 
SALOMON GESSNER. 


Religion is the blessedness arising from a 
knofoledge of God. . . . A code of morality 
only rules bud, unlobing souls, im order that thep 
map become first better und ther good. But the 
lobing contemplation of the souls first friend, 
fbo abundantly unimates those laos, bunishes 
not merely the bad thoughts which conquer, but 
those also fohich tempt. As the eagle flies high 
abobe the highest mountains, so dors true lobe 
ubobe struggling duty, RICHTER. 


Ghery one has his allotted time upon earth ; 
n brief und irretriebable space is giben to all; 
but it is birtue’s fork alone to stretch the narrow 
spuce by noble deeds, VIRGIL, 


Au the morning fohen thow risest untoillingly 
let these thoughts be present: “ad um rising to 
the fork of a human being, toby, then, um J 


Lie 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


dissatished if J um going to do the things for 
fohich J exist, und for which J tous brought inte 
the forld? @r babe J been made for this, to 
lie im the bedclothes und keep moself fourm? 
But this is more pleasant.” Dost thou evist, 
then, to take thy pleasure, and not for action or 


exertion ? 
MARCUS AURELIUS. 


Che fame of the dead fisherman has outlibes 
the glory of the ternal City. 


GARFIELD. 


Gbhen from x corner it is possible to spring up 
into beabern: rise, therefore, and form thyself 
into a fashion fotthy of God; thou canst not 
do this, howeber, With gold and silber; an image 
Ktke to God cannot be formed ont of such mate- 


rinls us these. SENECA. 


they do their father’s friend; they do not deny 
him; by no means; they only deny themseloes to 


bim, fohen be is good enough to call upon them. 
AUGUSTUS HARE, 


Some men treat the God of their fathers us 


Ly 


Sentiments. 


Had J been w nightingale, I should hube sung 
the songs of u nightingule, or had J been w swan, 
the songs of u shun; but, being w reasonable 
being, it is my dutp to hymn God. 


EPICTETUS. 


God is newr pou, is with you, is Hithin pou. 
SENECA. 


Heber do unp thing concerning the rectitude of 
fobich pou bube x doubt. 


PLINY THE YOUNGER. 


St is sad to think that the day may come to 
rach of us, fohen foe shall babe ceased to hope for 
discoberpy and for progress ; oben w thing will'seem 
a prior? false to us, simply becuuse it is nebo ; 
and fohem foe shull say querulously to the Dibine 
Hight fohich lightens ebery man bobo comes into 
the World: “ Bitherto shalt thou come, and no 
farther.” KINGSLEY. 


Rest satished that Whuteber is by the appoint- 
ment of Heaben is right, is best. 


JAMES HERVEY. 


473 


Short Sayings of Famous Men. 


Che grand essentinls of happiness are, some- 
thing to do, something to lobe, und something to 


hope for. THOMAS CHALMERS. 


Altaps say a kind ford if pou can, if only 
that it map come in, perhaps, With singular op- 
portuneness, entering some mourniul man’s darh- 
ened toom tke a beautiful fire-fly, whose happy 
conbolutions be cannot but batch, forgetting bis 


troubles. ARTHUR HELPS. 


GHe hold reunions, not for the dead, for there 
is nothing im all the earth thut pou and J can 
Do forthe dead. . . . Chey do not need us, 


but foreber and foreber more foe need them, 
GARFIELD. 


Whateber pour present self map be, resolbe 


fith all pour strength meber io degenerate thence. 
CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 


Grief, it is truly said, is sacred; but grief 
brought forfard promiscuouslp, barged upon, 
condoled ober, made the staple of conbersation, 


becomes rapidly profane. GAIL HAMILTON, 
174 


Sentiments. 


Che grevtness of the mighty dead hus vloays 
consisted im this, that they were seekers, im- 
probers, inventors, endued bith that dibine 
poher and right of discoberp fobich bas been be- 
stored ow us, eben us ow them. KINGSLEY. 


175 


Index. 


EPIGRAM AND EPIGRAPH. 


Acre in Middlesex, 18 Canonized and cannonaded, 8 
Addison, Joseph, 31 Chambers, Ephraim, 38 
fEschylus, 35 Chastity of honor, 19 
American, born as, 28 Christ, 17 
Amour-propre, 12 Cleverness, 12 
Architect of fortune, 13 Cock-loft empty, ro 
Aristocracy, 26 Come and take them, 28 
Artificial, all things, 17 Concealing thoughts, 6 
Arts and literature, 21 Confidence, 18 
Ashton, 41 Conscience, 21 
Atheism, 15 Content, 13 
Awake, meet Creator, 30 Cotton, John, 38 
Bacon, Francis, 30 Count and man, 8 
Beginning, 20 Cradle and grave, 25 
Benediction, face like, 12 Crime, more than, 21 
Beware, 23 Crimes and vices, 24 
Bishops, 23 Crown without the conflict, 32 
Blame, 6 Custom, 13 
Blood of the martyrs, 33 Day and night, 36 
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 27 Day, praise not, 20 
Books, 13 Death and dying, 18 
Brave, fortune favors, 8 Death, come quickly, 27 
Brave men, 3 Deluge, after me, 29 
Brickmaker, 42 Despotism, 5 
Byron, Lord, on himself, 34; | Devon, Earl of, 37 

on his 33d year, 40 Dickens, Charles, 29 
Cannibals, 18 Die for country, 8 


177 


Index. 


Die in harness, 3 

Divine image, 16 

Do and have done, 20 

Dog, on a, 42 

Duty, 16 

Elizabeth, L. H., 29 

Emigrated, 35 

Eminence and merit, 19 

Enemy, fallen in with, 4 

Englishman, 7 

Envy, 9 

Epictetus, 35 

Evil for good, 24 

Exaggeration, 9 

Farewell! but not forever, 34 

Fault, a small, 24 

Favors and silence, 21 

Federal Union, 6 

Fire, the best, 9 

First at rendezvous, 41 

First in war, 26 

First of my line, 28 

Fletcher, 37 

Fool, never been a, 5 

Forgiveness, 28 

Fortune’s gifts, 9 

Fortune transported to heaven, 
31 

Franklin, Benjamin, 42 

Freemen, 6 

Friend, masterpiece of nature, 
21 

Generosity, 30 

Genius, hunger of, 15 

Gentility, xz 

Giant and pigmy, 12 

Glory, road to, 4 

Gods, images made, 22 

Goldsmith, Oliver, 33 


Gone before, 33 

Good man,.20 

Government, form of, 4 

Gratitude, 14 

Great, the, 12 

Grief, caused none but her 
death, 33 

Grim death, 23 

Guilt, man without, 10 

Harcourt, 36 

Hatred, 15 

Heine, Heinrich, 31 

Henry V., 39 

Hero, 37 

Higher law, 5 

Hogarth, William, 33 

Hoit, Ephraim, 39 

Honor, all save, 5 

Humanity, wearisome, 6 

Hypocrisy, 11 

Ideas, 5 

Impatience, 20 

Imponderables, 15 

Independence, American, 26 

Inspiration, 20 

Intellect of the wise, 24 

Isle of Man, 44 

I think, 5 

Kindness misplaced, 15 

Kings will be tyrants, ro 

Knowledge, 6; and timber, 
13 

Last ditch, 7 

Law and tyranny, 8 

Lawyer and case, 7 

Learning, writers lost in, 12 

Leisure, 17 

Leonardo da Vinci, 30 

Letters, man of, 10 


178 


Index. 


Liberty, 3; in San Domingo, 
43 tree of, 7; crimes in name 


of, 8 
Lie, as a handle, 19 
Life and time, 16 
Life but a moment, 25 
Life, in the midst of, 28 
Light, unworthy of, 19 
Lincoln, Abraham, 26, 27 
Lived, had both, 40 


Live, frightful to, 13; a firm 


soul, 21 
Love and spurs, 11 


Love love, 14, 16; and life, 14; 


a liberal education, 26 
Luck and wickedness, 22 
Luther, Martin, 32 
Malice toward none, 25 
Manners, 15 
Man proposes, 16 
Masters himself, 13 
Medicine of the mind, 24 
Millions for defence, 10 
Moves, it, 29 
My life my monument, 35 
Nature and nurture, 17 
Nature a rag-merchant, 17 
Nature, art, artifice, 17 
New buckler, 5 
Newton, Isaac, 37 
Noble thoughts, 18 
Nowhere and everywhere, 14 
Office, 7 
Old friends, 13 
O’Looney, Lady, 43 
Orthography, 33 
Painter, I also am, 28 
Parish clerk, 44 
Passion, 17 


Passions, 21 

Past and future, 14 
Pathway of the gods, 24 
Patience, rr 

Peaceably, forcibly, 5 
Peace, call it, 8 

Peace, to preserve, 3 
Pedant, 10 

Pembroke, Countess of, 30 
Perfection, 11 

Perfume, 6 

Perhaps, a great, 30 
Persian arrows, 27 
Philospher of Mantua, 36 
Plato and Moses, 30 
Plough deep, 9 

Plucked the flower, 32 
Powder, keep dry, 28 
Praise, 28 

Prejudices, 3, 7 

Printer, on a, 44 
Procrastination, 12 
Progress, 5 

Prophecy, 13 

Purcell, 39 

Pure hands, 24 

Putnam, Israel, 25 
Raillery, 14 

Raphael, 3x 

Reading, 14 

Reason, 14 

Rebellion to tyrants, 4 
Recollection, to cherish, 31 
Religion, 22 : 
Remedy and disease, 6 
Remember thy end, 27 
Repentance, 24 
Reputation, 13 
Resurrection, 43 


179 


Index. 


Revenge, 22 

Riches, true, 11; and trouble, 
14 

Rivers, deepest, 12 

Sachs, Hans, 35 

Safety, 9 

Sardanapalus, 38 

Scriptures, knowledge of, 24 

See God, 32 

Self-love, 7 

Self-opinion, 9 

Shadows, 21 

Shakespeare, 27, 32, 343; on 
himself, 31 

Sheep, on a, 43 

Sigh of love, 8 

Silence, 14 

Silence of the people, 4 

Silver vessels, 16 

Sincerity, impartiality, 18 

Slander, 14 

Slave, epitaph on a, 34 

Slavery, 17 

Slave trade, 27 

Sleep, 19 

Spartans, 33 

Stand erect, 20 

Statesman’s heart, 8 

State, the, 23 

Statues, 28 

Stozzi, Leon, 36 

Strength overcome, 13 

Style, 7 

Success, 12 

Suffer and do, 12 

- Sweetness and light, 15 

Syllables, 3 

Talking, 7 

Taste, 16 


Teach men, 16 

Tempest in glass of water, 5 

Thousand-souled, 32 

Tibullus, 38 

Time, 11 

Times that try, 10 

Timocreon, 40 

Toil terribly, 25 

To-morrow, 21 

Tonson, Jacob, 41 

Too much, 15; and enough, 19 

Tragedy, 18 

Transubstantiation, 22 

Treason, 6 

Trouble, 9 

Truth, language of, 3; if held 
every, 9; honor every, 9; 
not impatient, 11 

Tug of war, 19 

Unity, liberty, charity, 15 

Unmanned, 15 

Vanquished, woe to, 5 

Vengeance and silence, 12 

Vernon, Thomas, 41 

Victories, costly, 4 

Virtue, 7; feigned, 29 

Virtues, unsuspected, 20 

Virtuous friend, 16 

Water and tears, 45 

Weathercock, 8 

Weeds, 17 

Westminster Abbey, 10 

Wickedness and reason, 22 

Will, freedom of, 18 

Will of the nation, 27 

Wings, 19 

Wisdom in alchemy, 16 

Wise enough, 18 

Wit and nonsense, ro 


180 


Index. 


Wit’s last edition, 37 
Wit snuffed by want, 7 
Wit, useless, 20 
Wives, on two, 45 
Women, 11 

Works, one’s own, 11 


World, life, wealth, learning, 
23 

Wound and sorrow, 26 

Wren, Christopher, 42 

Wrong-doing, 22 

Zucchi, Antonio, 34 


PHILOSOPHY. 


Absent, justice to the, 60 

Abstract ideas and conceit, 83 

Abstraction, mental, 79 

Actors’ parts, 94 

Age and youth, 85 

Agreement in thought, gx 

All things in all, 64 

Ambition, mistake of, 74, 76 

Annihilation impossible, 53, 69 

Appearances, reality of, 55, 60; 
keeping up, 89 

Approbation, 70 

Art and taste, 53 

Association, pleasure referred 
to, 66; delicacy of, 77 

Atheists’ unreason, 53 

Beauty and art, 57 

Belief, and life, 57 ; cherished, 
72; and wishes, 110 

Benefits, 81 

Bias, individual, 67; of judg- 
ment, 85 

Blessings, deceptive, 64 

Blocks, men have, 100 

Blood and actions, 99 

Books, modernness of good, 92 

Calumny, 104 

Can not and will not, 109 

Caricature of contemporaries, 
61 


Cause and causality, 82 

Change, 113 

Character, a teacher, 75 

Charlatans, 70 

Child, promise of, 90 

Christianity expands science, 
69 

Christian philosophy, 53 

Church spires, 57 

Circumstances and will, 63 

Civilization, tendency of, 63 

Cleverness and thought, 60 

Compulsion, 92 

Concealment of sin, 51 

Concentration, 71 ; power of, 83 

Confidence and knowledge, 89 

Conscience, primitive power 
of 54; delicacy of, 89 

Consistency, 109 

Conversation, 85 

Counsel anc approbation, 107 

Courage, 91 

Creation, 59 

Creator and creation distinct, 
62 

Critic, pleasure of, 105 

Culture, 70 

Daughters, occupation for, 95 

Death, fear of, 106 

Deception, 100 


181i 


Index. 


Deeds and character, 70 

Difference of minds, 81 

Directness, ror 

Discrimination, necessity of, 82 

Dissatisfaction in art, 71 

Diversity of gifts, 103 

Divine, the, 107 

Eating, 106 

Egotism, 62 

Eloquence and rhetoric, 74 

Emotion, irrational, 77 

Employment and happiness, 58 

Enemy’s misfortune, 104 

Envy, 103 

Error, sorrow for, ro2 

Excess, danger of, 92 

Executions absurd, 75 

Experience, 72 

Eye, simile drawn from, ror 

Facts and laws, 111 

Failure, blame of, 71; cause 
of, 78 

Faith unprovable, 79 

Fallow mind, 88 

False accusations, 103 

Falsehoods, turning over old, 
86 

Fame, mutability of, 86 

Farming, 87 

Faults, universal, 94 

Fear, 104 

Feelings, power of, 95; trans- 
itory, 112 

Fine society, 59 

Fortune, acquirement of, 97; 
power of, 99 ; resignation to, 
105 

Fraility, human, 108 

Freedom and bondage, 65 


Future life, 52 

Genial tempers, 75 

Genius and talent, 58; de- 
fined, 71; in the past, 76; 
defects of, 86 

Gentleness, power of, 89 

God, his omnipresence, 55, 733 
within, 55; his certainty, 59; 
and fate, 63; arguments for, 
66 

Good action, complacency of, 
100 

Good men wholesome, 85 

Goodness not without God, 53 

Gospel, teachings of, 71 

Great men’s needs, 100 

Great, protection of the, 78 

Growth, 112 

Habit, power of, 109 

Happiest person, 89 

Happiness, search for, 73; im- 
parted, 74; never attained, 
84; where found, 103 

Hate of enemies, 75 

Hatred, 106 

Heathenism and Christianity, 
55 

Heroism, 113 

Holes, triangular persons in 
square, 84 

Hope, 62, 102 

Humanity in 
growth of, 77 


animals, 75; 
Ideas, dismounting from, 74 
Ill of others, 63 

Illusion, 68 

Imagination, men of, 60 
Immortality, 55, 95 
Impatience, ror 


182 


Index. 


Incarnation, doctrine of, 108 
Indecision, 87 

Indignation, misleading, 93 
Individualism, 90, 97 
Ingratitude, 91 

Injuries and consolations, 112 
Insanity, 98 

Inspiration, 67 

Inventive power, ror 

Joy, power of, 77 

Kindness, 96, 102 

Laughing and crying, 63 


of, 95 
Learning and ignorance, tax 


on, 96 

Leaving off work, 111 

Liberty defined, 84 

Life after death, 51; pettiness 
of, 54; unamendable, 66; to 
be grasped, 67; and charac- 
ter, 73 

Literary reputation, 106 

Live for another, 69 

Lives blended, 93 

Loss, learning from, 102 

Love, 109 

Ludicrous, the, 83 

Lying, 92 

Mammon, 80 

Manners, 66; and laws, 56 

Marriage, 67 

Martyrdom, true, 107 

Meekness, power of, 71 

Men of force, 55 

Mental momentum, 69 

Mental tides, 88 


Middle condition of life, 57 

Mind is king, 72 

Misfortune, none to the wise, 

68; atest, 82; relief of, 93 

Modesty, 104 

Moral element in beauty, 58 

Moral victory, 111 

Mourning, 105 

Nature, adaptation of, 72; her 
language, 98 

New formulas, 52 


| Noble sentiments, 56 
Laws, fear of, 86; uncertainty 


Old Testament literature, r1o 

Opinions, relative importance 
of, 89 

Originality, 103 

Others, true knowledge of, 108 

Ourselves, shadow of, 76 

Partial knowledge, 83, 90 

Peace of mind, 81 

Penitence, unavailing, 51 

People, which preferred, 88 

Personalities, 68 

Philosophy, tendency of, 57; 
excess of, go; the highest, 
toz; weakness of, 109; a 
home-sickness, 111 

Piety and honesty, 73 

Poison and food, 87 

Politeness, 56; ground of, 78 

Poverty, 59 

Power, excessive, wears out, 66 

Progress, 110 

Providence, certainty of, 64 

Purity, 108 

Quotation, ror 

Rainy corners, 80 


Mental vacuum, 51 
Merit and regard, 107 


| Rascal, punishment of, 99 
| Recreation, necessity of, 78 


183 


Index. 


Repetition, 62 

Resignation, 106 

Responsibility, individual, 73 

Reticence, 99 

Reverence, 61 

Riches, contempt of, 61 

Ridicule, power of, 104 

Saxon and Norman, 65 

Sceptic praises God, 52 

Seat, a good, 78 

Secret, when lost, 88 

Self-denial, 86 

Self-knowledge, 79 

Self-love, 111 

Self-respect, 79 

Self-rule, 99 

Services, estimation of, 108 

Sharpness and worthiness, 58 

Skill and harmony, 76 

Sorrow, value of, 102 

Souls, of the good, 58; de- 
fined, 68; growth of, 92; 
change of, 98 

Speech, like aras, 93; what 
makes, 104; reflection on, 
105 

Statesmen, minds of, ror 

Success, a condition of, g1; 
power of, 93; cause of, 103 

Superciliousness, 106 

Talent, encouragement of, 65; 
clearness of, 88 

Time no agent, 74; wear of, 98 


Tolerance, religious, 54 

Trade, 94 

Training, youthful, 110 

Tranquillity of mind, 93 

Troubles, opinions of, 98 

True thoughts, 61 

Truth, search after, 65; all re- 
lated, 67; soul reveals, 67; 
in free field, 74; from great 
men, 87 

Two handles, 64 

Universal power, 110 

Universe, problems of, 60 

Unknowable, the, 60 

Unproductive classes, gt 

Variety of gifts, 69 

Virtue defined, 81; prospect- 
ive, 83; and vice, 93, 97, 100 

Virtues, fellowship of, 91 

Wisdom, 70; not an art, 72 

Wise thoughts, rr2 

Wit, unjust, 59 

Woes, how regarded, 1o5 

Woman, 86; her charms, 94; 
and ships, 95; her caprices, 
96 

Wooden folks, 89 

Words, power of, 76 

Working, 76 

Writers, able, 79 

Writing, disadvantage in, 97 

Zeus, 62 


SENTIMENTS. 


Absence, 141 
Accusations of self, 133 
Addison, 146 


Adversity, 122 
Adversity and religion, 166 
Affirmatives, incessant, 135 


184 


Index. 


Age, 160 

Anger, 143 

Animosity, 129 

Beggar, choose to be a, 165 

Beneficence, 164 

Benevolence, 129 

Birthday mementos, 158 

Blushing and fear, 146 

Boldness and courage, 150 

Books, 155, 157; life of, 124 ;and 
authors, 125 ; success of, 160 

Book, the world a, rar 

Bourne from which no one re- 
turns, 170 

Buttonholing, 137 

Candlestick in a low place, 127 

Cask, odor of, 130 

Cheerfulness of poets, 160 

Childhood, 142 

Children, needs of, 165 

Children, noble, 159; dutiful 
161 

Classes of society, 119 

Conscience, 144 

Consequences, for sake of, 140 

Conversation, 161 

Countenance, language of the, 
153 

Courage, 119; to appear good, 
123 

Court, people of the, 137 

Criticism, ugly, 119 

Daily needs, 146 

Dark things, 126 

Darts of the gods, 124 

Days, lost or misspent, 157 

‘Dead, life of the, 125; and 
living, 128; sorrow for the, 
137; the mighty, 175 


Death, welcome to, 170 

Deeds, noble, 171 

Defences, small, 163 

Degeneracy, 174 

Distrustful of friends, rer 

Divine service, 155 

Doing by hand of another, 122 

Eagerness, 150 

Earth and heaven, 119 

Expression, 141 

Fall, cause of, 131 

Fame, 157, 168 

Fashion, 123 

Faults, our own, 121; of youth 
and age, 129 

Feeling, 125; and judgment, 
167 ; doors to, 152 

Flattery, 164 

Fools, all men are, 130 

Forgiving and forgetting, 145 

Fortunes, 140, 141 

Fraud, 156 

Fretting, 125 

Friendship, 136, 142, 159 

Gentleman, a, 147, 148, 149, 160 

Girls and boys, 166 

Giving and receiving, 122 

God, 166, 169, 172, 173 

Good come of age, 132 

Good deeds, 124 

Good for something, r25 

Good man, to become a, 155 

Goods of mind, 156 

Governments, free, 153 

Grass, lessons of the, 166 

Grateful mind a, 132 

Great moments, 139 

Grief, the greatest, 144, 174 

Growth, 124 


185 


Index. 


Happier times remembered, 
144 

Happiness, 140; essentials of, 
174; glimpse of future, 170; 
supreme, 127 

Heads and hearts, 162 

Heart, has no wrinkles, 123; 
it reasons, 128; to see into 
the, 169 

Heavenly food, 154 

Heights in a mist, 126 

Help and pity, 159 

Hindrances, 152 

Home, 139 ; and paradise, 125 

Honor, 143; in death and life, 


150 

Hymning God, 172 

Ill-gotten gains, 134 

Imagined ills, 136 

Imitating good and evil, 132 

Individuality, 139 

Inquisitive people, 129 

Instruction, spirit that hates, 
120 

Intellectual power, 148 

Intention and completion, 121 

Kindness, 123; returning a, 
131 

Kind words, 174 

Landscape, 138 

Law, 169 

Leaves, lessons of the, 167 

Liberty or death, 134 

Life, long enough, 120; its! 
variety, 1293 aS an inn, 157; 
memory of a well-spent, 162 

Likings, our, 123 

Little things, 139 

Looking, satisfied with, 145 


Love, 163; the star of, 165 

Loving and haying, 120 

Luck, 120 

Manners, 154 ; most becoming, 
124; and knowledge, 135; 
good and bad, 137 

Misery, 171 

Misfortunes of others, 133 

Mistakes, 145 

Moderate speed, 141 

Modesty, 122, 129; and merit, 
141 

Moon and night-flowers, 122 

Mortality, 140 

Mother, death of, 128; Seneca 
to his, 153 ; remembrance of 
a, 162 

Nature, 158 

Need of the dead, 174 

Needs, 151 

Niggardly hands, 123 

Now, an everlasting, 144 

Old man’s faith, 15x 

Opinion of ourselves, 139 

Ornamental people, 146 

Pain, 134 

Party, how you seat your, 
123 

Past, love of, 122 

Pedestal, living on a, 120 

Philosopher, a, 131 

Pitt’s eloquence, 151 

Pity, 168 

Plans, wise ones frustrated, 137 

Pluck, 125 

Poet, the, 163 

Poetry, 138; old-fashioned, 123 

Politeness, 145; universal, 161 

Portraying character, 156 


186 


Index. 


Power, use of, 158; within us, 
167 

Praise, deserving, 121; 
death, 159 

Preacher, the best, 120 

Pretexts, 120 

Pride and merit, 133 

Progress, end of, 173; appa- 
rent and real, 164 

Purple, the, 161 

Pyramids, the, 127 

Reading, 155 

Relationships, 158 

Religion, 171 

Religious man, walk with a, 
168 

Religious principles, 161 

Remembrance after death, 148 

Renunciation, 122 

Reproaches, 128 

Reserve, 150 

Riches, 127 ; use of, 156 

Right word, the, 127 

Rivers, 133 

Roses, of to-day, 
thorns, 143 

Saint Peter, 172 

Saxon words, 136 

Schoolmaster, the, 145 

Self-approval, 158 

Self-reliance, 131 

Sensible man, a, 127 

Service of love, 119 

Shallowness, 124 

Shore, keep close to, 122 

Sincerity, 121 

Slander, 135, 154 

Sleep, 162 

Social sympathy, 149 


after 


134; and 


Songs of childhood, 156 

Sorrow, 170 

Soul, hospitality of, 130; a 
noble, 167 

Sowing, universal, 163 

Speech, a, 128; repression of, 
141 

Sphinxes, 143 

Straight line, a, 126 

Suffering as an educator, 161 

Suicide forbidden, 142 

Surprises, 169 

Table, law of the, 135 

Talking, art of, 145 

Task, every man’s, 120 

Tears, 142; bottle up, 126 

Theatre and pulpit, 135 

Thought, renewal of youth, 
162; whose it is, 162 

Tilling the earth, 153 

Time, 142; flight of, 154 

Times, better, 126 

Titles, 147 

To-day, as a gift, 168 

Too large and too small, 124 

Transportation, 138 

Trouble, hunting, 164 

True speech, 144 

Truth, colored, 134; search 
for, 138; at any price, 155; 
as a friend, 158 

Turning round, 154 

Union, music of the, 149 

Unmapped country, 126 

Unselfish thought, 128 

Valetudinarians, 152 

Verse, obsolete, 163; endur- 
ing, 165 

Vine, three clusters on, 132 


187 


Index. 


Virtue, 124, 132 

Water-nixie’s soul, 121 

Wealth, best good of, 130 

White lies, 140 

Winking, 143 

Wit, power of, 146; and wis- 
dom, 160 

Woman’s rights and wrongs, 


149 


Women, happiest, 131; their 
raiment, 134 
Word, a helping, 166 


Work, stopping, 135; daily, 
172 

World’s moral _ sentiment, 
131 


Worthiness of Ged, 172 


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